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• Mere words do not feed the friars.

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• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

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• I do not give money for just mere hopes.

  Terence

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

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• A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.

  Newt Gingrich

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• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

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• How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

  Terence

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• Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

  Thomas Sowell

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• The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

  Arthur Young

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• My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

  William Banting

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• There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

  Bertrand Russell

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