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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. Jeane Kirkpatrick

Government Merely Because Exists Legitimate

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. Jim Bishop

Care Men Else Everyone Everyone Else Has-Been Archaeology Merely Know Sciences Been Going Where Want Sandbox Who Tom

I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share. Joe Mantello

Work Witness Become Different Kinds Relationships Kinds Tend Share Merely Know Until Ready Private Lots Effective Very Different Process Really Less Internal Who Actor Need

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic. John Boyne

Hope Time Myself Memory Book Passion Become Every Think Lasting Second-Rate Hundreds Find See Classic Seem Only Could Merely Disappointed Feel Look Occasionally Read Does Which Again Titles Much Across Appear Novel Mediocre

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. John Carmack

Nature Law Clever Later Extremely Moore Some Point Merely Because Years Anything Graphics Competent Number Programmer

The approach to 'Star Wars' was more complicated than usual merely by the nature of its expansiveness. John Cassaday

Nature Complicated Approach More Merely Than Wars Usual Star Star Wars

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century. John Clayton

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be. John Glenn

Space Valuable Research Project Though Select Merely Scientists Handful May Information Interest Specialists Conquest Technological

The iPhone was the first phone that brought what we used to think of as 'desktop quality' software to a handheld platform: software where you just say, 'Wow, that's a great user experience,' not merely, 'Wow, that's a great user experience for a handheld.' John Gruber

Great You Quality Experience Phone First Think Software Say Wow Brought Merely iPhone Just Where Used User Platform Desktop

It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement. John Ridley

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In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive. John Scott

Welcome Face Mirror Own Others Books Alive Would Borrow My Own Merely Like Issues Debates Accuse Hold Might Keep Raise

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' John Tukey

Knowledge World Key Important Our Later Ease Our World Rather Direction Rating Merely Sooner Demand Sooner Or Later Most Quantitative How Answers How Much Questions Very Than Essentially Which Much Description Belief Asserting

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. Jonathan Dimbleby

You Culture Vision Challenge Big Market Merely Place

I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad. Jonathan Raymond

Life Great Me Comedy Thought Satisfied Kind Bad Seem Something Point Merely Like Contemporary Ecstasy Great Tragedy Always Sounds Reversal Tragedy Than Which Urban Richer Full Fortune Livable Thing

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. Jonathan Safran Foer

Dignity Memory Book Law Radical Living Our Our Lives Embarking Ancient Torah Telling Give Perennial Attempt Empathy Merely Text Human Being Story Act Foundational Lives Here Jewish

Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Christ Before Sit Too Meetings Table Feast Through Attending Merely Perhaps Gospel Motions Go Prayers Repeating Familiar Hearts Banquet Placed Scriptures Them Far Far Away Many Away Jesus Jesus Christ

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation. Joseph Franklin Rutherford

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. Juan Goytisolo

Writing Country Sense Earth Above Through Factors Merely Piece Cultural Historical Begin Order Process Which Social Acquire

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