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The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech. Marvin Ammori

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In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver. Max Heindel

Emotions World Feelings Live Evolved Highest Outward Merely Term Reach Said Passions May Currents Which Meaning Meaning Of Really Body Fuller Creatures Liver Flow Desire

If Beyonce and Jay-Z had been born and raised in Cuba, they would have merely survived, with no opportunity to realize their aspirations. Only in a land that treasures liberty and the pursuit of happiness can such dreams become a reality. Mercedes Schlapp

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With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian. Michael Dirda

People Mysteries Possible Must Eccentric Exception Merely Adventure Edwardian Fiction Victorian Fantasy View Reasonable Many Popular Fascination

I think it's important to view the issues on the broadest possible reference plane. In fact, if you firmly believe in any issue, I urge you to read the opposite of it. Most of the time, it'll merely reinforce your original beliefs, but on the rare occasion, it might change your mind. Michael Ramirez

Time You Change Mind Rare Important Believe Think Possible Fact Merely Firmly Most Occasion Read Issue Issues Opposite Reference Any In Fact Urge Might Plane View Your Original Beliefs Reinforce

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse. Michelle Alexander

People Sense Other Side Jim Jim Crow Extreme Locked Physical Emerged Rather More Crow Segregation Color Merely Mass Town Masse Than Literal Form Far Incarceration Residential

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it. Michelle Alexander

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The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective. Miguel Syjuco

Experience Perspective Broader Immigrant Only Small Small Part Part Merely Look Itself Intended Even Filipino Specific

Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect. Mike Barnicle

Work Respect World Looking Understanding Sense Every Corner Danger Merely Most Around Hallway Real Each Filled Cops Lurking Imagined

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values. Mohsin Hamid

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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Mortimer Adler

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'The General Theory' was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon. Murray Rothbard

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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. Napoleon Bonaparte

Man Atheist Become Merely Wishing Cannot

Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me. Neil Sedaka

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Me People Think Universe Fact Merely Revealing Making In Fact Happen Anything Interesting Inherently Special Credit

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside. Nick Lampson

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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. Patrick Geddes

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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Paul Cezanne

Past Adds Oneself Merely New Does Link Substitute

I don't shape trends, I'd say. I merely reflect them. I think the emphasis is on 'them.' I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge. Paul Muldoon

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The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. Paul Virilio

World Light Speed Merely Globalization Becomes Does Transform

There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known. Pawan Kalyan

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