#mere

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. ↗

— George Soros

#ago #already #ballot #being #could

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#competing #curiosities #divorced #facts #isolated

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice #mere

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#consider #constitution #evolving #flexible #how

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#hat #lets #merely #rain

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#eternity #joke #just #long #mere

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#does #idea #intellect #intellectual #manner

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#ethics #leadership #management #mere #politics