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If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
Orison Swett Marden
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Author
Mere
Our Dreams
Sincere
Desires
Realities
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I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.
John Nelson Darby
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Esteem
Gathering
Meetings
Mere
Organised
Associations
Churches
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People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.
Fred Ehrsam
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Derivatives
Mere
Speculation
Associate
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Author
Agreement
Mere
Rhyme
Actual
Attempts
English
Earliest
Included
Slight
Whose
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When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.
Jakob Bohme
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Mere
Return
Sprung
Uncertainty
Entered
Till
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'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.
Jon Landau
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Record Producer
Running
Band
Mere
Stylist
Carefully
Classify
Composed
Designed
Mccartney
Paul
Paul Mccartney
Statement
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil Rights Leader
Friendship
Inspirational
Religion
Wise
Business
Easy
Enemy
Friendly
Mere
Quintessence
Religious
True Religion
Business Enough Your
Befriend
Himself
Regards
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
Garrett Hardin
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Ecologist
Deeper
Ecology
Mere
Religious
Roots
Thinking
Fundamental
Held
However
Major
Threatens
Widely
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When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?
Brian Baird
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Former United States Representative
Activity
Entity
Freshman
Honor
Involved
Mere
Puzzled
Asked
Elected
Holding
Political Activity
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My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist.
Rashida Tlaib
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Causes
Congress
Mere
Palestinian
American
Exist
Human Being
Member
Saying
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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Philosopher
Actuality
Chaos
Existence
Indispensable
Ingredients
Mere
Pure
Reality
Regularity
Generality
Indeed
Ingredient
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
Giacomo Casanova
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Author
Air
Disposition
Mere
Natural
Reason
Acquaintances
Good Always Never
Fresh
Good Reason
Suppose
Readily
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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon
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Painter
Art
Imperfect
Mere
Perfection
Reality
Untrue
Approaches
Definition
Inasmuch
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While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.
Zoey Tur
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Entertainment
Marginalized
Mere
Reducing
Television
Exploit
Hardships
Help
Reinforce
Stereotypes
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Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
James Mark Baldwin
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Psychologist
Identifying
Important
Latter
Mere
Order
Soul
Essential
Important Step
Principle
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil Rights Leader
Compromise
Fundamentals
Give And Take
Giving
Mere
Surrender
Based
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We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Author
Buffalo
Desire
Landing
Mere
Range
Should Have
Corner
Cover
Expedition
Fired
Smith
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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes
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Actress
Life
Achievement
Eternity
Games
Lines
Longevity
Mere
Years
Life Work Good
Good Thing
Hour
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The Boston run of 'Lolita, My Love' ended after a mere nine performances - though one of them was recorded at decent enough quality to be preserved by the New York Public Library.
Sarah Weinman
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Boston
Decent
Mere
Public Library
Preserved
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
D. H. Lawrence
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Novelist
Closets
Democracy
Dislike
Electric
Electric Light
Light
Mere
Vulgar
Water
Brings
Prices
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They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
Hirohito
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Former Emperor Of Japan
Conception
Divine
Emperor
Legends
Mere
People
Race
Depend
False
Japanese
Japanese People
Myths
Races
Superior
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Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
Leonard Susskind
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Professor
Carbon
Consequence
Grease
Irrelevant
Mere
Seems
Special
Universe
Water
Life Man Universe
General
Star
Circling
Pinpoint
Planet
Workings
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I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I root for the Congress ideology, but I am not subject to the Congress party.
Mahesh Bhatt
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Film Director
Ideology
Mere
Aligned
Political Party
Root
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It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Writer
Extremism
Folks
Humans
Long
Lying
Mere
Rumor
Beliefs
Easily
False
Lies
Makes
Rumors
Troubling
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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Historian
Trust
Abuse
Doubt
Mere
No Doubt
Oligarchy
Ought
Sometimes
Tyranny
Usurpation
Authorities
Engine
Lodged
Regarded
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The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.
Michel Faber
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Writer
Crimson
Mere
Publication
Adapt
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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
Stephen Harper
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Prime Minister Of Canada
Dogma
Mere
Policy
Accept
Attained
Enforced
National
Question
Status
Supposed
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With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.
Mariella Frostrup
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Journalist
Baby
Birth
Couple
Cradle
Decades
Giving
Mere
Premature
Life Education Health
Spans
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Mathematician
Men
Arise
Memories
Mere
Physicians
Practice
Theory
Empirical
Memory
Perceptions
Principle
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim
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Sociologist
Sad
Contemplation
Doe
Mere
Sadness
Sorrow
World
Cloth
Product
Reach
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Mere recording of an event will not make it a historical document. It will become obsolete with time. Only those that emotionally connect with the audience will stand the test of time.
Ilaiyaraaja
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Historical
Mere
Obsolete
Document
Emotionally
Recording
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When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.
Joseph P. Bradley
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Elevation
Mere
Special
Stage
Ceases
Favorite
Citizen
Emerged
Rank
Takes
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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
Bianca Jagger
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Actress
Believe
Importance
Innocent
Mere
People
Voice
Voiceless
Witness
Bearing
Innocent People
Save
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In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.
Martin Rees
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Astronomer
Children
Light
Mere
Perceive
Planets
Solar System
Stars
Sun
Twinkling
Fully
Points
Solar
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton
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Writer
Doomed
Exploring
Fate
Finding Yourself
Forgotten
Illusion
Mere
Steps
Trying
Try
Simply
Fraction
Learn
Perhaps
Recognize
Retrace
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Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
John Bates Clark
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Economist
Mere
Commission
Contradictions
Final Answer
Gained
Suggested
Volumes
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The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
Lysander Spooner
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Philosopher
Mere
Slave
Toleration
Board
Itself
Wrong
Lawful
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Canada's total exports into global markets reached a record high of $528.8 billion in 2014, the last year with fully available figures. A mere $18.8 billion of those exports went to China.
Terry Glavin
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Available
Canada
China
Figures
Last Year
Mere
Billion
Exports
Fully
Global
Record
Reached
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Henry Mayhew
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Journalist
Elements
Mere
According
Matters
None
Truths
Utterly
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A network neutrality rule could result in mere 'slaps on the wrist' or involve such expensive and difficult litigation procedures that no small company or consumer could ever bring a case.
Marvin Ammori
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Expensive
Mere
Neutrality
Procedures
Consumer
Involve
Litigation
Network
Wrist
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
Alice Meynell
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Writer
Infancy
Mere
Life Long Will
Adding
Further
Throw
Traditions
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I couldn't be happier starting 2019 with this film 'Haathi Mere Saathi.' It's the first time that I am doing a trilingual film which I'm excited about. It will be my Tamil and Telugu debut.
Shriya Pilgaonkar
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Debut
Mere
Time I Am Will
Time I Am Doing
Telugu
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If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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Accuracy
Circumstances
Mere
Starting Point
Examine
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To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
Melvin Calvin
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Impossible
Mere
Describe
Express
Particularly
Normally
Occasion
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Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
Vitruvius
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Architect
Grasping
Mere
Shadow
Substance
Sufficient
Adopt
Assign
Forms
Fails
Instead
Practical
Reasons
Wherefore
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Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.
Tyra Banks
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Television Personality
Careers
Mere
Names
Slim
Thinking
Chances
Diversify
Model
Household Name
Promote
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The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.
Martin Jacques
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Journalist
Mere
Power World Will
Centuries
Power World Rest
Unlike
Located
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I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Scientist
Friendship
Dear
Deeper
Mere
Sincerely
Discovered
In Fact
Pupil
To Love
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Mathematician
Men
Exclusive
Faults
Mere
Occupation
Shortcomings
Be True
Equally
Mathematicians
Specific
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Hermann Hesse
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Poet
Age
Encounters
Lasting
Mere
Minutes
Nevertheless
Old Age
Years
Brief
Experienced
Occurrence
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