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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. Christopher Alexander

Nature You World Build Isolation Says Must Web More Takes Merely Make Within Around Becomes Repair Cannot Place Which View Whole Fundamental Larger Thing Coherent

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Democritus

Good Rather Wrong Merely Means Desire

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. Douglas Adams

Integrity Impossible Kind Merely Improbable Often Lacks Which

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant

Happiness God Be Happy Happy Will Ourselves Merely Make Should

Age merely shows what children we remain. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age Remain Merely Children Shows

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher

Post Finished Experiment Say Statistician Examination Consult He Merely Perhaps Him Conduct Died Often After Ask

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James

People Think Thinking Merely Prejudices Rearranging Many

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed. Bayard Rustin

Truth War Freedom Degree Believe Follow Vocation Wrong Merely Which Act Conscience Right Conscription Inconsistent Receives

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely. Cleopatra

Honour Merely Yielded Conquered

Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu. Dada Vaswani

Today God Experience People Dinner Reading Philosophy Tell Eating About Menu Merely Between Difference Want Us Much Theology

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Douglas Adams

Hoped He Merely Involved Prayed Contradiction Afterlife Realized Then Here

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. Ellen Willis

Freedom Religion Struggle Culture World Feminism Tolerance Intimidated Secularism Religious Silenced Religious Tolerance Morality Individual Individual Freedom Merely Over Democratic Islamic Islamic World Authoritarian Going Jailed Patriarchal Where Against Regularly Including

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour. H. P. Lovecraft

Alone Church Be True Christianity Benefit Bitter Possibly Would Propagation Only He True Merely Toward Masses Doctrines Forcible Knows Makes Were Conventional Cannot Them Asked View Help Agnostic Toleration Whom

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect. Karen Salmansohn

Work Love You Respect Yourself Important Complain Stay Wounds About More Merely Toxic Heal Limiting Doing Expand Person Far Your Show Beliefs Inner Need

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. Leonardo da Vinci

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. Marcel Proust

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole. Sam Harris

Yourself Humanity People Matter Christian Jews Liberal Validity Muslims Status Status Quo Tacit Morally Rather Merely Identified Identifying How Than Quo Against Lends Theology Your Whole Jew Christians

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel. Steven Seagal

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego. Sylvia Plath

Myself Ego Discipline Symptom Unless Later Latter Plots Must Record Unproductive Rather Purpose Pointless Merely Knit Also Without Dialogue Motives Than Trying Probe Sensations Story Create Descriptions Imaginative

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