#rely

I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#bring #home #i #i believe #our

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. ↗

— Hans Kung

#including #misused #often #purely #religion

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#counted #ever #invented #man #most

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

#being #different #little #merely #modern

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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