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“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.”

Facts Causes Influence Media Students Achievement Evidence Mere Currents Instruction Vehicle Nutrition Truck Groceries Student Achievement

Author:Richard A. Clarke

“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Facts Eye Artist Dies Turns Imagination Mere Details Being True Rumor Celestial

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.”

Stills Facts Spirit Politics Belief Process Views Theory Mere Proof This Society

Author:Derek R. Audette

“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”

Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.”

Needs Facts Happened Adventure Shadow Mere Endure Forgotten Tales Being True Dust Ashes Sandman

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.”

“The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.”

“There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.”

Stills Facts Lying Quality Mere Quality Of Life Facts Of Life

Book:RELIGION IN THE MAKING

Source: RELIGION IN THE MAKING

“The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.”

Men Firsts Facts Earth Heaven Mere Kingdoms Handful Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.”

Source: It's Been a Good Life

“I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.”

Sometimes Facts Results Type Criticism Mere Hunches

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.”

People Mind Facts Pain Form Father Grows Opinion Boys Growing Up Youth Son Capacity Mere Accepted Phrases Substitutes Incapable No Pain

Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.”

Facts Fall Literature Wife Rocks Habit Mere My Wife Compare Dropping Goats Beastly

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.”

States Facts Race Color Mere Fund Creeds Irrelevance

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.”

Looks Mean Art Facts Feelings Beautiful Emotion Principles Objects Particular Depends Art Is Aim Independent Remains Unions Mere Bounds Assumption Justify Aesthetic Observers Gratification

Author:Eduard Hanslick

“This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.”

“It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.”

Want Country Facts Dies Mere Hunger Population Melancholy Calamity

Book:A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

“One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.”

Mean Important Ideas Facts Hands Practice Theory Mere Practicals Motivated Speculation Theoretical Accumulation Theory And Practice

Author:George E. P. Box

“We have in fact entered upon the final phase..., the darkest period of this dark age, the state of dissolution from which there is to be no emerging except through a cataclysm, since it is no longer a mere revival which is required, but a complete renovation.”

States Facts Age Growth Dark Periods Mere Finals Phases Revival Emerging Dark Ages Dissolution Renovation

Author:Rene Guenon

“Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.”

People Kind Real Facts Feelings Sin Taken Mere Charity Tolerance Spite Sinner Superiority Indulgence Parody Presumption Merriment Deep Feeling

Book:Christian Reflections

Source: Christian Reflections

“A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.”

Men Moments Facts Eye Voice Crime He Man Judging Mere Betrayal Criminals Flash Attempting Hesitation

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.”

Giving Facts Running Bits Class History Humour Becoming Army Mere Tone Officers Warfare Lower Class Sergeants

Book:The Carpet People

Source: The Carpet People

“I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.”

Thinking Should Facts Would Be Christian Christianity Atheism Evidence Mere Positive Atheism Agnostic Christian Faith Evangelical Fallacy Unitarian

Author:Robert M. Price

“It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.”

Men Firsts Children Facts Shows Remember Strong Knowing Birth First Time Mere Speed Proof Reincarnation

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger

“The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing.”

World Long Has Beens Important States Facts Use Nations United Powerful United States Long Time Blind Threat Mere Superpower Intrusion

Author:T. D. Allman

“Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.”

Way Facts Form Opportunity Fun Our Lives Journey Media Unique Reflection Mirrors Mere Currents Details

Author:Mara Brock Akil

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