#mere

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#humans #includes #matches #me #mere

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#age #back #been #computers #fact

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

— Tom Hayden

#atrocities #hanoi #merely #should #trip

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#achievement #day #eternity #game #good

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#ancient #brilliant #condemned #dictum #errors

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#being #earth #greater #happiness #heaven

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#achieve #against #goodness #little #mere

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#german #language #merely #others #speak

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning