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“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

Knows Mean Doe Lying Religion Order Speak Leadership Destruction Mere Lawyer Liars Portions Deceiving Deceptive Craftsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.”

Feels Mean Different Song Subjects Emotional Aspect Mere Repetition Autonomous Wallowing

Author:St. Vincent

“He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.”

Mean Suffering Dies Produce Fool Prove Evidence Mere Doctrine Absurd Martyr Martyrdom Knaves

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Art Would Be Turns Painting Machines Asking Aim Mere Satisfied More Time Enthusiastic Incomplete Collectors

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.”

Mean Ends Sides Effects Painting Paper Conscious Embrace Mere Paint Strive Technique Expressive Means To An End Mannerisms

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.”

World Mean Persons Problem Individual Difficult Creative Achievement Mere Cures Uplifting Organized Controlled Be Creative Feats

Book:The amazing results of positive thinking

Source: The amazing results of positive thinking

“The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it’s like there’s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you’d be crushed under the weight of it.”

Mean Happens Next Hours Secret Share Kissing Weight Mere Things Happen Surviving Crushed

Book:This Is Not a Test

Source: This Is Not a Test

“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

Men Mean Long Seems Care Happiness Humanity Individual Progress Goodness Ideals Mere Species Longevity I Care Individual Life

Author:C. S. Lewis

“If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Mere Conceit Conceited Christian Humility Humble Person

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”

Mean Long Pieces Mere Coins Circulation

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production