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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
John Sergeant Wise
Service
Needs
Mother
Faithful
Ownership
Duty
Sense
Negroes
Carried
Physical
Had
Supplying
Mere
Beyond
Render
Concerning
Qualms
Far
Requiring
Even
Conscience
Her
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.
John W. Foster
God
Time
Mere
Filling
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
John White Geary
Daily
Plunder
Mere
Roads
Armed
Occurrence
Filled
'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
Impossible
Will
Band
Carefully
Statement
Run
Composed
Classify
Mere
Make
Stylist
Personal
Anyone
McCartney
Again
Paul
Paul McCartney
Designed
Hope, decency, and unity are not mere catchwords.
Jon Ossoff
Hope
Decency
Unity
Mere
I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.
Jonathan Dimbleby
Hate
Thought
Flying
Mere
Stomach
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
Jonathan Sacks
Good
Matter
Universe
Our
Brought
Seeks
More
Mere
Motion
Were
Than
Being
Who
Creator
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Joseph Nye
Leadership
Change
Risks
World
Goals
Change The World
Virtues
Alike
Those
Out
Objectives
More
Tend
Take
Leaders
Mere
Managers
Experts
Public
Modest
Who
Bold
Downplay
Whose
Set
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
Joyce Maynard
Free
Subscribe
Types
Some
Remain
Writer
Mere
Mortals
Like
Salinger
Person
Being
Literary
Might
Notion
Standards
Apply
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
Will
Moon
Before
Our
Distance
Consideration
Earth
Visit
Trifle
Mere
Between
Over
Am
Repeat
Years
To The Moon
Convinced
Paid
Satellite
Serious
Twenty
Her
1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.
Kage Baker
Animal
World
Lost
Fragmentary
Too
Everything
Once
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Dinosaur
Classic
Archives
Obscure
Footage
Mere
Like
Pieces
Existing
Movie
Them
Really
Should
Extinct
If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.
Karen Salmansohn
Life
Food
You
Lose
Must
Weight
Mere
Make
Sure
Than
Want
Bigger
Far
Your
Appetite
If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.
Katherine Harris
Justice
Law
Action
Intervened
Recount
Could
Had
Allowed
Mere
Supposed
Supreme
Supreme Court
Gore
Court
Any
Rewritten
Procedural
After
Which
Uniform
Then
Us
Standards
Certified
Al
Al Gore
Florida
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
World
Wish
Those
Vast
Writers
Consumer
Mere
Am
Cultures
Reflections
Literature
Which
Themselves
Create
Tokyo
Who
Large
Works
Serious
Novels
Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Kimberly Willis Holt
Life
Me
Sometimes
Parents
Own
Hatch
My Own
Inspired
Mere
Come
Ideas
Most
Childhood
Experiences
Stories
Story
Moments
Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
Laura Moser
Success
Intelligence
Predict
More
Mere
Long-Term
Than
Often
Grit
Pop
Measured
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
Laura Riding
Truth
Art
Problem
Poet
Solve
Solved
Seem
Poem
Only
Poetry
Mere
Making
For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Thoughts
You
Change
Reality
Events
Universe
Record
Objective
Mere
Imply
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Does
Still
Causes
Nor
Existence
Effects
Deny
Want
Require
Act
Mechanics
External
Need
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa
Silence
World
Hardships
Nation
Past
Sympathy
State
Invading
Crossed
Brutal
Had
Mere
Over
Armies
Force
Polish
Were
Sovereign
Sovereign State
Frontiers
Experienced
Which
Centuries
Succumb
Many
Belong
In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?
Li Lu
You
Opportunity
Will
Drop
Else
Risk
Only
Volatility
Prices
Cheap
Investment
Mere
Look
Permanent
Loss
Stock
Stocks
Where
Biggest
Whether
Capital
View
Suffer
Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
Mara Brock Akil
Life
Time
Journey
Opportunity
Reflection
Mirror
Changing
Our
Ways
Details
More
Fact
Mere
Makes
How
Lot
Current
Any
Just
Experiencing
Form
Fun
Unique
Media
Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.
Mario Batali
You
Style
Whatever
Sets
Late-Night
Mine
Ninety-Nine
TV
Bucks
Mere
Like
Pieces
Wellington
Duke
Friends
Five
Often
Want
Then
Cook
Dragon
Slay
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
Future
Light
Solar
Stars
Our
Solar System
Sun
Those
System
Perceive
Points
Mere
Learn
Children
Interesting
Planets
Fully
Each
Twinkling
The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.
Martti Ahtisaari
World
State
System
Touch
Fact
Head
Mere
Get
Anybody
Former
Means
Theory
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
Result
Neutrality
Difficult
Rule
Case
Network
Small
Could
Wrist
Consumer
Mere
Involve
Expensive
Procedures
Litigation
Company
Ever
Bring
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
Michael Servetus
Will
Our
Shall
Mere
Continue
Discussion
Burn
Eternity
Event
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