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This is the passage in translation—and I did the translation: "Do you recall the passage where he asks the reader what he'd do if he could make himself rich by killing an old Mandarin in China, merely by willing it, without budging from Paris?" "Yes, well, but..." "Ah, I'm on my 33rd Mandarin." "Don't make a joke of it. Really, if it were proved to you that the thing was possible and that a nod of your head would be enough, would you do it?"

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Because as long as the four of us love each other, I think there is no reason for anyone to see us separately. But I do think that might have confused the fans, so yeah, I treat this relationship very delicately. Well, you know, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players." Yes, it's a play on "player." You're right, let me be the player.

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It disturbs my complacency about myself; it disorients myself. The other merely does not negate me, as in the case of Hegelian analysis of how the other can negate me. No, the encounter with the other makes myself reveal itself to me.

Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as First Philosophy

It is asymmetrical, and that is the very important point that comes from Levinas. The second important point that comes across in Levinas's writings is ethics is anti-foundational. It is not grounded in rationality merely; it is pre-cognitive. That's the important thing. Ethics is not about giving justification for ethical norms.

Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as First Philosophy

little thought to the fact that they, by pursuing their own ends each in his own way and often in opposition to others, unwittingly—as if guided along—work to promote the intent of nature, which is unknown to them and which, even if it were known to them, they would hardly care about. Since human beings do not, in the pursuit of their endeavors, follow merely their instincts as animals do, and yet

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a seed of enlightenment always remained which developed further through each revolution and prepared a subsequent even more greatly improved stage then one will i believe thereby discover a guiding thread that serves not only to explain the convoluted play of human events nor merely for political fortune telling regarding future changes in the state a benefit which one has already been able

Immanuel Kant 1784 - Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

to hope to find it only in another world. It would be a misrepresentation of my intent to presume that I would wish to suppress accounts of the actual history that are merely empirically grounded with this idea of a history of the world which, in some sense, has a guiding thread a priori. It is only a thought about what else a philosophical mind, which incidentally must be extensively familiar

Immanuel Kant 1784 - Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective

But if my commitments were merely personal, rooted only in my own particular history, I couldn't recommend them to people whose experiences are different from mine.

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grounded in the present and avoid dwelling on past wounds, for lingering there can attract similar experiences and perpetuate old mistakes. Moreover, the subconscious lacks intentionality; it's merely a repository of stored data. It absorbs what garners the most attention, including the sum of your social conditioning and personal experiences. Your subconscious does not filter unhealthy thoughts; that

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responsibility falls upon your shoulders. Utilizing the power of repetition, you can actively reprogram your subconscious beliefs. Suppose you aspire to transform from insecurity to confidence; repeatedly affirming, "I am the most confident person in the world," can be your mantra. The key lies in not merely parting empty words but in genuinely feeling the confidence you seek. Here, it's essential to recognize

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We are merely an isolated individual and I.

What does it truly mean to eat the person you love?

It merely amputates [music] a part of who they are.

What does it truly mean to eat the person you love?

Now, that's a big sentence—Germans have a tendency to do that. What it means is basically that all higher or cultural development of mankind is only the result of his own activity; that there is no outside agency that gives us breakthroughs or developments. He's eliminating God from the pattern of human history. That is to say, the natural situation of the human species requires that it account for and create its own progress and elevation beyond the merely animal state.

Dr. Darren Staloff, Kant's Idea for a Universal History

It is merely the reflection of a mind that has learned to play the right game, of someone who has stopped fighting against their own brain and started to design a path of least resistance for the correct behavior, of someone who understands that they don't need to win by force, they just need to win by structure.

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A person who practices a skill for 1 hour every day is not merely collecting hours.

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powers to defeat greymoor what powers you mean my voice that is merely one aspect of your power perhaps the first to manifest you need to learn how to control it properly yeah and we

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would allow him to expand his interpretation as well. Just think about that for a second: at any moment, Jogo could simply output a lethal amount of volcanic smoke that would be enough to poison and kill your average sorcerer. If that somehow didn't get the job done, Jogo could then combo that by merely creating a small spark and lighting the literal air on fire due to the flammability of the poisonous smoke, creating a sure-hit without even needing to cast a domain. The concept of doing that may seem insane to some, but for manga fans, you know that this level of sorcery is

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That is merely one aspect of your power, perhaps the first to manifest. You need to learn how to control it properly.

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You treat me merely as a tool.

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