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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. O. Henry

People State Francisco East Merely Californians West According San San Francisco Race Inhabitants

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. Paul J. Meyer

Mistakes Ladder Merely Steps Up

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. Rollo May

Death Youth Creativity Human Being Passion Innocent Live Our Married Must Adult Merely Spontaneity Beyond Also Childhood Human Being Which

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us. Seal

Reflection Believe Every Society Our Inside Merely Going Us Each

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. Seth Lloyd

Time System Evolving Physical Merely Existing Any Information Processes

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. Theodore Gericault

Alone Imagination Brush Colour Merely Tint While Produces

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? Tom Hayden

Trip Atrocities Unconscionable Unsettling Merely American Should Why

Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians. Tony Evans

Corruption Racism Result Evil Nation Gone Others Our Must Fingers Only Directly Pointing Pointing Fingers Troubles Never Merely Days Also Ineffective Although Fix May Ills Christians

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Wallace Stevens

Poet Philosopher Merely Proves Existence Exists

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. Will Self

Life History Eyes Experience Confused Group Futility Physicality Individual True Merely Between Opening Understand Passively Models Sitting Human Conflicts Processes Social Human Experience Stands Grasped Even Spectator Need

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive Life Death Good Man Evil Cold Benevolence Hath Absolute He Merely Like Real Heat Which Much

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. Xun Kuang

Men Petty Those Scholars Merely Cautious Upright Successful Who

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes. A. Philip Randolph

Free Minds Negroes Would Freed Merely Lincoln Bodies

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king. Alan Dershowitz

God Secular King Moral Tells All-Powerful Something Merely Make Because Does Said Doing Command Person Us Who Believer

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. Alan Dundes

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony. Alan Greenspan

Exhausted Down Markets Prolongs Perceived Only Prevent Merely Trying Going Just Them Turn Themselves Agony Downside

Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else. Alan K. Simpson

Politics Problem Money Country Else Our Crisis Tackling Faces Prevents Merely Over Dominance Anything Anything Else Us Many Growing

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. Alvar Aalto

Architecture National Local Earth Merely Clearly Ties Rooted

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog. Amity Gaige

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People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. Amity Shlaes

Day People Halloween Valentines Day Value Secular Christian Valentine Say Tell Muslim Merely Like Because Hindu Which Themselves Actually Jewish

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. Andrew Coyle Bradley

Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating. Angela Duckworth

Life People Important Few Too Other Find Something Merely Feel Like Most Doing Very Few People Going Interested Personally Really Who Fascinating Whole Keep Keep Going Eventually

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