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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. William James

Good Experience Feeling Valid Would Would-Be Could Merely Feeling Good Drunkenness Supremely Human Decide Human Experience

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. William Kingdon Clifford

Great Become Lose Believe Society Enough Back Danger Inquiring Though Must Habit Wrong Merely Wrong Things Testing Sink Them Then Should Things Credulous Savagery

For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell. Alan Dershowitz

God Good Bible People Law Simple Bad People Good People Hell Distinguished Bad Abide Law-Abiding Merely Most Because Go Go To Hell Commands Question Heaven Requires Why

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something. Andrea Bocelli

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Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people. Annie Besant

People Result Evolution Physical Allied Unseen Merely Reaction Frequency Due Educated Educated People Experiences Sensing Body Many Activity Among

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime). Bhagat Singh

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson

Change World Mind Power Exactly Exactly The Same Merely Hands Same Grasp

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. Edward Jenner

Hope Trust Inspire Beneficial Pleasing Further Inquiry Shall Merely Becoming Still Endeavour Essentially Mankind Moment Sufficient Speculative

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom Too Late Ought Never Merely Because Often Reject

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression. George Will

Political Become Somehow Rather Both Merely Wishes Most Geographic Than Currency Fiction Against Euro Europe Europeans Expression

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Will Ownership Living Must Misery Merely Feet Him His Reform Should Farmer Productivity Standards Keep Raise Raises

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. H. L. Mencken

Good Become Husbands Never Merely Proficient

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. Harry Emerson Fosdick

Change Cause Profit Merely Supposed Nor Endure Even Christians

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. Henry Miller

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? Jose Rizal

Fitness Man Rights Citizen Pay Fatherland Must Be A Man Some More More Or Less Civilization No-One He Arises Merely Since Shed Him His Denied Question Fit Blood Ceases Being Regarded Taxes Asked Less Filipino Why Right Defend

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. Malcolm Forbes

Responsibility Lose Enjoy Those Merely Like Exercising Get Authority Who

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side. Michael Korda

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. Michael Korda

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. Nellie Bly

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Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain. Nick Davies

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