#mere

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#mere #opera #world

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. ↗

— Henry Ford

#far #giving #helping #men #mere

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#endure #how #life #merely #much

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods. ↗

— John Foster

#beach boys #beatles #beauty #creates #does

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#cover #debt #entity #expensive #higher

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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