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Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels. Ellen G. White

Work God Great Satan Men Ministers Angels Merely Great Work His Against Engaged Choosing Warring

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact. Emile Durkheim

Single Others Relation Relative Immediately Distinguished Contact Environment Merely Most Attributed Subject Person Being Which Autonomy

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. Ezra Pound

Work Fruit Writing Value Criticism Own Other Consider Unless Later Statement Sometime Writer Clear Excitement Head Merely Come His Up Created Preliminary Things

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. Ferdinand de Saussure

Language Correcting Directed Studies Merely Towards Longer Were Grammar Henceforth

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. Florence Ellinwood Allen

Politics You Women Judge Action Individual Merely Effect Hardly

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America. Frank Gaffney

Faith Government Family Strong Political Three National Defense Presidency Conservatives Adhering Secure Components Strong National Defense Rests Smaller Smaller Government Merely Firmly Since Reagan National Defense America Represent Legs Ronald Reagan Succeeded Coalition Platform Necessary

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. Frank Moore Colby

Man Will Consider City Triumph Steal Merely Intellectual Efforts Intense Mayor After Choose Who Large Suffrage

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. Frederick William Robertson

Love Love Is Spirits Merely Between Union Creatures Two

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion. Fredric March

Character Illusion Year Suitable Top Tricky Finding Featured Lifetime Head Merely Maintaining Uneasy Just Being Stories Agony Downgrade Star Stardom Seat Keeping Player Competent Last Two

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. Gene Fowler

You Men Merely Against Themselves

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. George Boole

Knowledge World Mind Thought Relations Secret Those Ourselves High Object Laws Perceptive Rational Attained Faculties Merely Beyond Does Matured Unfold Which Stand Need

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. George Edward Moore

Good Will Statements Moral Kinds Laws Merely Effects Certain Actions

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. George Gallup

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. George Saunders

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. George Woodcock

School Discipline Other Ways System Wounds Spirit Merely School System Boy Got Were Which English English School Among Things Early

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it. Georges Bernanos

Faith Our Our Lives Shape Merely Loses Cease Which Lives Thing

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. Georges Duhamel

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult. Giovanni Ribisi

People Parents Philosophy System Threat Some Point Had Merely Clerical Because Pragmatic Yeah Cult Were Up Celebrities Grew Certain Who Exposure Belief Media Millions Millions Of People

There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event. Grace Jones

The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture. Gregory Benford

Culture Illusion Evil Myth Past Own Our Outcome Some Rather Merely Error Matrix Itself Karmic Payoff Actions Founding External

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