#mere

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#based #compromise #fundamentals #give #give and take

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #conviction #deepest #merely #please

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#country #death #follow #food #forced

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. ↗

— Walter Lang

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No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#degree #differences #free #inherent #merely

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#editors #i #life #merchandise #merely

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#form #merely #most #obvious #our