#mere

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#achieves #between #careers #consistently #distance

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#basically #conditioning #culture #doing #good

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#between #clash #epistemology #mere #point

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#any #considered #did #evils #had

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#mere #scatter #smoke #wind #world

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#communication #determined #form #hampered #inevitable

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.' ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#art #band #been #born #called

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. ↗

— Karl Marx

#gone #mad #merely #miser #rational

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#country #fellowship #foundation #idea #love

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#education #going #institutions #knowing #limited