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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

Religion Business Enemy Other Enough Easy Mere True Himself True Religion Befriend Friendly Friends Quintessence Regards Your Who

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? Richard P. Feynman

Science Atoms Beauty Stars Too Say See More Poets Takes Mere Feel Them Less Desert Away Gas Night

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real. Roy H. Williams

Words Shadows Cast Mere Ideas Real Represent

Women aren't as mere as they used to be. Walt Kelly

Women Mere Used

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter. Abraham Cahan

World Wind Scatter Mere Smoke Curl

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe

Love Friendship Man Heart Something Directly Brute Unselfish Had Mere Occasion Him Frequent Test Goes Which Fidelity Who Paltry

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

Good Natural Disposition Good Reason Through Never Mere Suppose Make Although Readily Fresh Always Break Acquaintances Them Reason

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. James Agee

Confusion Own Would Examine My Own Consume Attempt Volumes Mere

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. Joan Didion

Love Money Power Dream City Mysterious Instead Mere New Perishable Shining Itself York Infinitely New York Romantic Notion

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. John Updike

Naked Barefoot Approaches Mere Revolutionary Going Being

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. Julian Baggini

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick. Laura Mennell

Worth Animals Harming Fur Vanity Cosmetic Shade Perfect Purposes Shameful Mere Lipstick Any Disgusting Senseless Them Reason

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls. Matt Haig

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

Hope Dared Mere How Occur Often Which Even Things Chance

I had no political background. That's why PM Bhutto gave me the responsibility of the nuclear programme, and we acquired nuclear capability in a span of mere six years, which was a great milestone. Abdul Qadeer Khan

Great Me Political Responsibility Gave Background Had Mere Years Six Which Span Capability Acquired Milestone Why Nuclear Programme

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

Love Friendship Feeling Pupil Fact Mere Sincerely Know Learned Dear Discovered Very Than In Fact Interest To Love Far Deeper Her

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. Alton Brown

Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for a popular soap brand years ago. I was paid a huge amount of money for a mere 30 seconds of screen presence. After that, ads have been a regular feature in my career. Amruta Khanvilkar

Money First Pay Films Seconds Pleasantly More Feature Ads Mere Surprised Been Years Years Ago Huge Huge Amount Brand Than Commercials Did Screen Soap After Regular Paid Certainly Popular Amount Presence Profitability Ad Career

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for. Amy Jo Martin

Work Great Business Respect Entrepreneur Great Deal Gender Those More Fact Never Leaders Mere Within Deal Isolated Due Male Friend Role Role Models Models Personal Done Them CEO Based Tony

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

Learning Try Illusion Recognize Simply Mere Steps Retrace Perhaps Learn Am Forgotten Doomed Should Exploring Fraction

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