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“The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Members Asking Mere Family Members Annuals Bonus Hives

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road killings, killings on the road when someone is trying to pass a convoy and they get shot. Or if a roadside bomb goes off, the soldiers just start shooting in all directions.”

Ifs Trying Shots Tragedy Mere Killing Everyday Soldier Shooting Bombs Engagement Suspicion Roadside Lax Rules Of Engagement

Author:Yaroslav Trofimov

“I don't mean to sound so disenchanted, but I will tell you what has been going on in our country in the mere - the last nine months to a year in terms of the fact that there is clear evidentiary proof based on video footage.”

Years Mean Has Beens Country Facts Lasts Sound Term Clear Months Mere Proof Nine Video Our Country Nine Months Disenchanted

Author:Sharon Cooper

“Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistication some species exhibit without supposing that they have genuine beliefs. But once these ethologists finish making the case for animal belief, they quickly move to talk of animal knowledge as well. What I argue is that this is not a mere façon de parler.”

Wells Kind Problem Moving Belief Animal Cases Mere Species Arguing Genuine Problem Solving Exhibits Sophistication Supposing Supposing That Anthropomorphism

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”

Should Humans Happiness Pleasure Animal Should Have Mere Equality Enjoyment Human Happiness Subordination

Book:The table talk of Samuel Johnson

Source: The table talk of Samuel Johnson

“Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.”

People Trying Character Teach Practice Successful Development Office Mere Stealing Taoism Thieves Considering Salary Talkers Public Office Successful Work

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how lengths can make such a big impact on your shape. I learned how to incorporate a cute peter pan collar on a dress and not make it look juvenile.”

Looks Bigs Term Differences Depends Fit Shapes Dresses Impact Mere Cute Length Clothings Peter Collars Juvenile Big Impact

Author:Lily Collins

“Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless objects before you kill them? From a yogic point of view, one must weigh the karmic consequences of perceiving others as mere objects to be used and the consequences of profiting from the suffering of others.”

Used Suffering Animal Views Objects Consequence Treats Mere Point Of View Nameless Suffering Of Others Faceless

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I have a vision of a world where we don't continue down senseless paths, where we care for our fellow human as much as we care for ourselves. I believe the mere striving for such a world is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner and global security.”

World Believe Humans Care I Believe Vision Path Security Fellows Foundation Mere Strive Liberation

Author:Sam Branson

“We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.”

People World Needs Eye Numbers Identity Adventure Bears Walking Machines Stress Mere Unseen Love Someone Awakened Lifeless Terminal Need Love Cogs Loving Eyes

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.”

Needs Spiritual Joy Materials Drug Pure Abuse Foundation Mere Response Addiction Alcohol Sensations Oblivion Craving Pure Joy

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.”

Process Healing Transformation Mere Observation

Book:Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness

Source: Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness

“We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick. They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel.”

Want Heart Persons Christian Fans Son Authority Beats Crosses Salvation Mere Scripture Redemption Flames Idols Resurrection Tick

Author:D. A. Carson

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

“Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.”

Pain Effort Growing Up Growing Groups Mere Thoughtful Mastery Deliberate Subsistence

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.”

Whole Moments Earth Felt Perfect Pleasure Equal Filled Mere Flying Bliss Aviation That Moment Airplane Fly Away Exhilaration

Author:Jacques Charles

“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Christian Lasts Joy Peace Christ Born Meditation Inspire Breaths Mere Buddhist Generosity Resurrection Bodhisattva

Author:Jean Leloup

“Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.”

Wells Art Existence Vision Seeing Mere Art Of Living

Author:Alexandra Stoddard

“Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.”

World Littles Done Running Attention Failing Mere Merit Neglected Trifles Despised

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“An immortal soul, from its very nature, cannot find what it needs anywhere except in God Himself. True religion begins in the heart. It is not a mere set of rules to be obeyed-an example to be copied. It is Christ coming into the heart and dwelling there.”

Needs Heart Soul Christ Christianity Example Mere Immortal Dwelling True Religion Immortal Soul

Author:J.R. Miller

“There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.”

Way Fighting Belief Challenges Atheism Absolutes Mere Atheist Absence Refusal Belief In God

Author:Jacques Maritain

“It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.”

Mere Possession Enjoyment

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.”

Enough Judgment Intention Mere Affirmation

Author:Ernest Sosa

“It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.”

Country Existence Revolution Victory Capable Unions Mere Soviet Other Countries Soviet Union

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.”

Ifs Reason Asks Christianity Special Aim Mere Boundaries Revelations Extensions Optional Lutherans

Author:Allen W. Wood

“No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.”

Humans Body Human Nature Objects Theory Mere Partners Observation Interaction Calculations

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.”

World Kind Littles Persons Ends Night Chance Animal Views Quality Produce Theory Mere Critics Absurd Latter Atoms Arrangements Theologian Noisy Insistence Ontology Colourful Epicurean

Author:Catherine Wilson

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

Inspirational Play Theory Intellectual Philosophical Blind Mere Theory And Practice Categorical Imperative

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.”

Kind Long Book Different Christian Christianity Study Nice Picks Mere Theology Just One Watersheds

Author:Max Lucado

“I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.”

Book Christianity Mere Classic Classic Book

Author:Max Lucado

“Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.”

Firsts Poet Decided Mere Like Me Idiot Pens Unnecessary Rhyme Trash Rhyming Quaint Uncool

Author:Gene Weingarten

“Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.”

People Sometimes Facts Bigs Connections Mere

Author:Chath Piersath

“This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.”

“After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.”

People Should Trying Doe Ideas Reason Form Stuff Imagination Special Information Expression Argument Mere Prose Pope Romanticism

Author:Robert Hass

“Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of the "responsible men," as advocates of "manufacture of consent" have recommended? Or should their rights transcend these highly restricted bounds?”

People Men Should Action Rights Weight Responsible Mere Bounds Consent Spectators Participants Lending

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.”

Kind Different Opinion Democracy Connections Mere Hypocrisy Different Kinds Adjectives Epithet

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.”

Force Animal Creatures Mere Individuality Deny Mute

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any dual nationality, but the mere fact would be the reality because we have overrepresentation of often Moroccan people and other people from Islamic background in a crime that they would be stripped of the Dutch nationality and sent away.”

People Facts Reality Would Be Courses Crime Mere Backgrounds Islamic Racist Australian Nationality Dutch Swedish

Author:Geert Wilders

“What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what you will have is growing unemployment in Zimbabwe, growing impoverishment among the people, growing social conflict. And I think that is the worst sort of outcome, that collapse of Zimbabwe certainly would have a much, much worse effect on the region than mere image.”

People Thinking Social Talking Growing Worst Effects Conflict Mere Outcomes Regions Collapse Unemployment Zimbabwe Imf Meltdowns

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.”

Source: Symposium

“The summit is the mere formality, the ceremonial demonstration of what was agreed to long ago, weeks, months before the summit.”

Long Week Months Mere Long Ago Summit Demonstration Formality

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states do so in a matter of months because the challenges associated with mere survival on the outside are so immense.”

Years Matter States Challenges Months Return Survival Majority Prison Mere Immense

Author:Michelle Alexander

“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.”

“At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.”

Giving Humans Looks Three Color Type Percent Female Majority Mere Extras Fourth Identical Mutation Genetic Mutation

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“A couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine are, in real fact, a couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine, not mere particles in motion.”

Real Facts Couple Walking Mere Particles Couple Love

Author:Stuart Kauffman

“I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they are very vulnerable, but I see it in the fact that the economic institutional order of the world is associated with this very persistent poverty and that different institutional arrangements at the supranational level could stop and even reverse the slide towards ever-greater income disparities.”

“Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US government first and foremost. These governments are elected by us, funded by us, acting on our behalf, sensitive to our will, and so, we are not mere bystanders observing the injustice.”

Firsts Government Acting Design Mere Injustice Sensitive Adoption Behalf Observing Compliance Bystanders

Author:Thomas Pogge

“So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.”

Should Long Seems Belief Views Accepting Stones Mere Versions Sufficient Reasonable Relevant Accurate Inquiry Stepping Stones

Author:Gail Fine

“Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."”

Way Light India Foundation Mere Deeper Britain Japan Passports

Author:Pico Iyer

“We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.”

Ifs Used Special Bible Mere Patient Burden Beast Biblical Dose Opium Overload Overloaded Beast Of Burden

Author:Charles Kingsley

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