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522 Written Quotes

Merely to exist is not enough. Votes: 3

Rabindranath Tagore

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Merely being human is morally significant. Votes: 3

Alice Crary

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Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people. Votes: 3

Edmund Husserl

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Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing. Votes: 3

Jacque Fresco

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Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. Votes: 3

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence. Votes: 3

Anthony Hecht

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Votes: 3

Albert Einstein

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There is a Difference Between Merely Living and Living Worthily Votes: 3

B. R. Ambedkar

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Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it. Votes: 3

Frederick Franck

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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile. Votes: 3

Milan Kundera

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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true Votes: 3

Robert Frost

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Votes: 2

Mark Twain

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Votes: 2

Rabindranath Tagore

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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Votes: 2

Nido Qubein

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Votes: 2

Golda Meir

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. Votes: 2

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Votes: 2

Rabindranath Tagore

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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. Votes: 2

Sam Harris

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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. Votes: 2

Joel A. Barker

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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Votes: 2

Anton Chekhov

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Votes: 2

Rumi

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Votes: 2

Maya Angelou

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. Votes: 2

Stendhal

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Votes: 2

John Wooden

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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. Votes: 2

Alexander Hamilton

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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. Votes: 2

Zora Neale Hurston

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Votes: 2

Samuel Ullman

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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. Votes: 2

Elsa Schiaparelli

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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. Votes: 2

H. P. Lovecraft

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Votes: 2

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. Votes: 2

Steven Biko

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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Votes: 2

Amelia Earhart

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Votes: 2

Woodrow Wilson

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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Votes: 1

Nelson Mandela

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History is merely gossip Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Love is merely a madness. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Love is like life-merely longer. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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Costs merely register competing attractions. Votes: 0

Frank Knight

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Originality is merely an illusion. Votes: 0

M. C. Escher

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Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation. Votes: 0

Lily King

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Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. Votes: 0

Stephen Leacock

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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Steven Wright

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Journalism is merely history's first draft. Votes: 0

Geoffrey Ward

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Virtue is too often merely local. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage. Votes: 0

Milton H. Erickson

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there are NO rules, merely suggestions Votes: 0

Keri Smith

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All books are merely delayed dust. Votes: 0

George Elliott Clarke

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Committees do harm merely by existing. Votes: 0

Freeman Dyson

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All tradition is merely the past. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Laws without enforced consequences are merely suggestions. Votes: 0

Ron Brackin

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Better to illuminate, than merely to shine. Votes: 0

Thomas Aquinas

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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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The feeble soul merely whines and complains. Votes: 0

Taylor Caldwell

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Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness. Votes: 0

Henry Ford

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Our lives are merely trees of possibilities. Votes: 0

Marc Bolan

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God is not dead-He is merely unemployed... Votes: 0

Walt Kelly

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...living is merely the chaos of existence... Votes: 0

Yukio Mishima

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Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Seeing, despite the name, isn't merely visual. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Competition is merely the absence of oppression. Votes: 0

Frederic Bastiat

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Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Charles Ives

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They are commiting murder who merely live. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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Age merely shows what children we remain. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Time does not pass, it merely changes. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral. Votes: 0

Jack London

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Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. Votes: 0

John Wanamaker

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Magic never dies. It merely fades away. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. Votes: 0

Paul J. Meyer

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Without money honor is merely a disease. Votes: 0

Jean Racine

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Born merely for the purpose of digestion. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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War is merely a continuation of politics, Votes: 0

Carl von Clausewitz

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Hope is merely another face of desire. Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty. Votes: 0

Stephan Attia

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Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory. Votes: 0

Gary Numan

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Anything short of excellence is merely an excuse. Votes: 0

Faisal Khosa

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My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely. Votes: 0

Cleopatra

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I do not threaten, I merely advise caution. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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Public behavior is merely private character writ large. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions Votes: 0

Alanis Morissette

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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen. Votes: 0

Shane Claiborne

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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Nobody could rule this world merely by peace. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. Votes: 0

Henry Ford

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To the wizard death is merely a belief. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. Votes: 0

Mikhail Lermontov

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory. Votes: 0

Pierre Bonnard

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Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught. Votes: 0

Erno Paasilinna

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My political giving has merely followed my relationships. Votes: 0

David Jolly

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Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort. Votes: 0

Morgan Freeman

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The greater number of men are merely corporals. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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People do not change, they are merely revealed. Votes: 0

Anne Enright

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.' Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love? Votes: 0

Amy Tan

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Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans. Votes: 0

John F. Kerry

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition. Votes: 0

Jacques Hadamard

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I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! Votes: 0

James Finn Garner

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Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Votes: 0

J. Edgar Hoover

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered Votes: 0

Jose Saramago

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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way. Votes: 0

D.T. Suzuki

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Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else. Votes: 0

W. C. Fields

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Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Votes: 0

Peter Schiff

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Money is merely a reward for solving problems. Votes: 0

Mike Murdock

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Be not merely good. Be good for something. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. Votes: 0

Edward Weston

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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. Votes: 0

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. Votes: 0

Edward Albee

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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. Votes: 0

Italo Calvino

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Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. Votes: 0

Steven Molaro

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Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit. Votes: 0

Cesare Pavese

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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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One person's mess is merely another person's filing system. Votes: 0

Margo Kaufman

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understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings, Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Votes: 0

Carl Sagan

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Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise. Votes: 0

Randy Gage

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Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. Votes: 0

Robert McNamara

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Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. Votes: 0

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives. Votes: 0

Janet Macunovich

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Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude. Votes: 0

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera. Votes: 0

Emil Ludwig

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A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. Votes: 0

Og Mandino

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All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent." Votes: 0

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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What is written is merely the dregs of experience. Votes: 0

Franz Kafka

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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges. Votes: 0

Thomas Aquinas

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I shall never again admire a merely brave man. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future. Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned. Votes: 0

Dan Simmons

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A melody is not merely something you can hum. Votes: 0

Aaron Copland

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Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. Votes: 0

Lyndon B. Johnson

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He broke my heart. You merely broke my life. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved. Votes: 0

Loren Eiseley

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A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy. Votes: 0

Stephen Sondheim

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A home without a dog is merely a shelter. Votes: 0

Stephen Huneck

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Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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I am not gone but merely walk within you. Votes: 0

Nicholas Evans

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I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms. Votes: 0

Clarice Lispector

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Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens. Votes: 0

Ian Mckellen

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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra. Votes: 0

Lorenz Oken

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The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. Votes: 0

Anatole France

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I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth. Votes: 0

Miriam Makeba

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We live merely on the crust or rind of things. Votes: 0

James Anthony Froude

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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human. Votes: 0

Plato

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True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can. Votes: 0

Ian Frazier

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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. Votes: 0

J. L. Austin

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A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists. Votes: 0

Eric Mabius

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The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating. Votes: 0

William H. Stewart

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True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; Votes: 0

William Taylor

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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health. Votes: 0

Martial

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Life is not to live merely, but to live well. Votes: 0

Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence Votes: 0

Arthur C. Clarke

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Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. Votes: 0

Zora Neale Hurston

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Age is merely a suit, and not a new dress. Votes: 0

Ivan Tverdovsky

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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them. Votes: 0

Henry Jacobsen

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No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial. Votes: 0

William Rainey Harper

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I eat merely to put food out of my mind. Votes: 0

N. F. Simpson

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My music is not modern, it is merely badly played Votes: 0

Arnold Schoenberg

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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. Votes: 0

George Orwell

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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. Votes: 0

Tony Judt

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I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances. Votes: 0

Graham Shiels

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It is not enough merely to win; others must lose. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. Votes: 0

Marcel Duchamp

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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. Votes: 0

Gene Fowler

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Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe? Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation. Votes: 0

Vilayat Inayat Khan

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The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene Votes: 0

Matt Ridley

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What you already know is merely a good departure point. Votes: 0

Keorapetse Kgositsile

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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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I don't work. I merely inflict myself on the public. Votes: 0

Robert Morley

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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill. Votes: 0

Patrick MacGill

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War is merely the continuation of politics by other means Votes: 0

Carl von Clausewitz

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I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me Votes: 0

Peter Habeler

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind. Votes: 0

Bruce Chatwin

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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. Votes: 0

Baltasar Gracian

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Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying. Votes: 0

Bobby Jones

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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing Votes: 0

Leo Buscaglia

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Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you. Votes: 0

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you. Votes: 0

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. Votes: 0

Victor Cousin

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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. Votes: 0

Frank Moore Colby

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Drew

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Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. Votes: 0

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there. Votes: 0

Bob Costas

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Avoidance doesn't solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve. Votes: 0

Tony Dungy

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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today! Votes: 0

Mary Morrissey

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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all. Votes: 0

Billy Bragg

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Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers... Votes: 0

Bob Hope

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Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious. Votes: 0

Laura Riding

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... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. Votes: 0

Elaine Dundy

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Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny. Votes: 0

Bryant H. McGill

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I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception. Votes: 0

Quentin S. Crisp

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We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable. Votes: 0

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Votes: 0

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed. Votes: 0

David Gemmell

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Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating. Votes: 0

Joy Davidman

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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. Votes: 0

Alvin Toffler

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Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan. Votes: 0

Joel Fuhrman

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A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected. Votes: 0

Robin Skelton

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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. Votes: 0

Martial

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myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place Votes: 0

A. J. Liebling

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I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them. Votes: 0

David Attenborough

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. Votes: 0

John Witherspoon

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You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. Votes: 0

Sydney J. Harris

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We merely want to live in peace with all the world... Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. Votes: 0

A. J. Liebling

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You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. Votes: 0

Randall Dale Adams

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I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you. Votes: 0

Margaret Way

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What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. Votes: 0

Paul Valery

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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. Votes: 0

Frederick the Great

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. Votes: 0

Phillips Brooks

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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell

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Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation. Votes: 0

Maria Montessori

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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. Votes: 0

Robert Anton Wilson

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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. Votes: 0

Alan Coren

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Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it? Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning. Votes: 0

Joe Queenan

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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. Votes: 0

Charles de Lint

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Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction Votes: 0

Ernest A. Jones

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Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. Votes: 0

Livy

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Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Drew

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Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course Votes: 0

Larry David

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Votes: 0

Hans F. Sennholz

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Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination. Votes: 0

Henry Giroux

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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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I'm the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. Votes: 0

Jeaniene Frost

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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. Votes: 0

Theodore Gericault

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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Votes: 0

Theodor Adorno

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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. Votes: 0

Hippocrates

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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. Votes: 0

Irvin S. Cobb

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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. Votes: 0

FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand

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Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen. Votes: 0

Mandy Hale

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Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman

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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Votes: 0

Kerry Thornley

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All that effort," he mused, "merely to avoid me. How gratifying. Votes: 0

Shana Abe

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The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it. Votes: 0

Hortense Calisher

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You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself. Votes: 0

Richard M. Nixon

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If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average. Votes: 0

Shawn Achor

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Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you. Votes: 0

Suzanne Brockmann

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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. Votes: 0

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man Votes: 0

Luke Johnson

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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon? Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. Votes: 0

John Webster

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Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct. Votes: 0

Antonin Artaud

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I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious. Votes: 0

George Carlin

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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. Votes: 0

Niels Bohr

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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe. Votes: 0

William Rounseville Alger

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Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them Votes: 0

Lev S. Vygotsky

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When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. Votes: 0

Roger Scruton

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Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. Votes: 0

Douglas Adams

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It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far. Votes: 0

Robert Reich

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Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre. Votes: 0

Steven Chu

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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something. Votes: 0

Lev Grossman

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A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. Votes: 0

Edward Thomas

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When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment. Votes: 0

Myrtle Reed

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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. Votes: 0

Aristophanes

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our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Eugenides

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We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it Votes: 0

Michelle Alexander

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Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death. Votes: 0

Mike Dickenson

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It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. Votes: 0

Norman Vincent Peale

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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. Votes: 0

Bill Veeck

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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices. Votes: 0

Knute Rockne

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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. Votes: 0

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. Votes: 0

Antonio Porchia

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I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian. Votes: 0

Ignatius of Antioch

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The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm. Votes: 0

Confucius

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I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. Votes: 0

Bill Veeck

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Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good ... Votes: 0

Victoria Woodhull

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Votes: 0

Duke Ellington

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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way. Votes: 0

Leonard Ravenhill

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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. Votes: 0

Jack London

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One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel. Votes: 0

Isak Dinesen

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Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. Votes: 0

Georges Duhamel

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There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law. Votes: 0

Claude Debussy

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Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Votes: 0

Rex Stout

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Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. Votes: 0

Will Smith

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What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better? Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Votes: 0

Martin Heidegger

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To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. Votes: 0

Marina Abramovic

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Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. Votes: 0

Marlon Brando

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. Votes: 0

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad. Votes: 0

Pitigrilli

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God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do. Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Votes: 0

Valerie Solanas

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Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. Votes: 0

Michael Josephson

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A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Votes: 0

Bliss Carman

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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched. Votes: 0

Chris Pavone

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What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter. Votes: 0

Neale Donald Walsch

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...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. Votes: 0

Jonah Lehrer

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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. Votes: 0

Timothy Zahn

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A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul. Votes: 0

Alexandra Adornetto

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The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads. Votes: 0

Thomas B. Macaulay

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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know. Votes: 0

William Rose Benet

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Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire. Votes: 0

Garth Brooks

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice. Votes: 0

Ramakrishna

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He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. Votes: 0

Confucius

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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer... Votes: 0

Lewis Mumford

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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present. Votes: 0

Davis Bunn

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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. Votes: 0

Ralph Richardson

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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. Votes: 0

Ada Lovelace

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. Votes: 0

Thornton Wilder

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I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ... Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Votes: 0

Chief Seattle

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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. Votes: 0

Raoul Vaneigem

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I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom. Votes: 0

Suzanne Collins

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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid Votes: 0

Heinrich Heine

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We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings. Votes: 0

Margaret Heckler

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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant

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Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact. Votes: 0

Howard Thurman

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She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. Votes: 0

Michael Cunningham

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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do not think of how big the universe is, it will merely hurt your head Votes: 0

Buddha

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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others. Votes: 0

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. Votes: 0

Neale Donald Walsch

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The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. Votes: 0

Margaret Halsey

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Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time. Votes: 0

Gary W. Keller

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God has called each one of us to embrace life, not merely to endure it. Votes: 0

Perry Noble

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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. Votes: 0

Rex Stout

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It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you. Votes: 0

John Owen

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Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life. Votes: 0

James Holman

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The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult. Votes: 0

Yvon Chouinard

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Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity. Votes: 0

Walker Percy

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I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. Votes: 0

Crystal Eastman

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Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Votes: 0

Barbara Hambly

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It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man. Votes: 0

Dorothy Day

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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller. Votes: 0

Adam Rapp

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I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse. Votes: 0

Julia Golding

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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Votes: 0

Jawaharlal Nehru

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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? Votes: 0

Dan Barker

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away. Votes: 0

Ralph Marston

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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money. Votes: 0

Andrew Mellon

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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Whittam

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A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it. Votes: 0

Kaoru Kurimoto

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The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right. Votes: 0

Frank Rich

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What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective. Votes: 0

Gary Zukav

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A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard. Votes: 0

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one. Votes: 0

Paul Tudor Jones

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Votes: 0

Karl Marx

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Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you. Votes: 0

Seth Grahame-Smith

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Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. Votes: 0

Richard Hamming

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Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men? Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well Votes: 0

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece. Votes: 0

Theodore Levitt

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about. Votes: 0

Roxane Gay

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For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word. Votes: 0

Knut Hamsun

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Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. Votes: 0

Peter Greenaway

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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. Votes: 0

Christopher Morley

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I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it. Votes: 0

Douglas Coupland

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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself. Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant

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Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. Votes: 0

Marie Corelli

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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth. Votes: 0

Sabrina Jeffries

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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Votes: 0

Democritus

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An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you. Votes: 0

Charlie Munger

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. Votes: 0

Kenneth Adelman

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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say. Votes: 0

Jennifer Stone

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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Votes: 0

Paul Cezanne

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I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me. Votes: 0

Charles Kingsley

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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson

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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. Votes: 0

David Lloyd George

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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink Votes: 0

Ben Jonson

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. Votes: 0

Aleister Crowley

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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you Votes: 0

E. Stanley Jones

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I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. Votes: 0

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. Votes: 0

Robert Morley

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The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care. Votes: 0

Sterling W Sill

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To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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Oh, how we could blossom if we didn't have to fight to the death to merely exist! Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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I smiled, and you winked. I think. Perhaps you merely blink with one eye at a time. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. Votes: 0

Georges Bernanos

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If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying. Votes: 0

Leslea Tash

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I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it. Votes: 0

Georges Bernanos

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When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. Votes: 0

Roy H. Williams

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Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that. Votes: 0

Norman Vincent Peale

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Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. Votes: 0

C. Wright Mills

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It is not more than you can handle. It is merely more than you thought you could do. Votes: 0

Laura Breckenridge

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Blaise Pascal

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The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.

Doreen Virtue

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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

E. B. White

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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Drew

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The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Howard Hughes

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A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

John Wooden

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If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Maria Popova

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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

Vikas Swarup

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They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

Xun Zi

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Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

Albert Schweitzer

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Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

Dalai Lama

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Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

George Orwell

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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

James Dean

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A bookmanâs love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Larry McMurtry

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The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

Les Brown

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I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Robert Collier

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If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.

Thomas Reed

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

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Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.....

Walter Lippmann

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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

William Butler Yeats

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I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

Aleister Crowley

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Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

Ashleigh Brilliant

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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Bill Vaughan

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The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

Brigid Brophy

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What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Charles Babbage

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Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

Eugene O'Neill

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Or maybe you're merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

Jerry Spinelli

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Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

Sharon Shinn

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Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

Baruch Spinoza

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Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

Christopher Morley

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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Isaiah Berlin

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The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

Jamie Oliver

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He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

John Connolly

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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

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...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Peter David

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Seneca the Younger

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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

Thomas Carlyle

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Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

Tony Robbins

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

Oscar Wilde

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It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

John Updike

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Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Karl Marx

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Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

Mahatma Gandhi

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A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Robert Bolt

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Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Robert Pinsky

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A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

S. Truett Cathy

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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Doris Lessing

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.

Frederick Buechner

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I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

Masaaki Hatsumi

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Man must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

Spencer W. Kimball

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The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Terence McKenna

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A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Oscar Wilde

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"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Charles Dickens

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We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

E. Stanley Jones

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Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

Georges Braque

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Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

Kathleen Parker

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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Malcolm X

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In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work...

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

Yasmine Galenorn

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Immanuel Kant

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...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Moliere

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Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.

Patrick Dixon

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Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains.

Robin Ince

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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

Thomas A. Edison

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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

William Jennings Bryan

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Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

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Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

Edward Bellamy

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What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute ...

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

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Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

John F. Kennedy

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The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

John Ruskin

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I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

Michael Moore

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... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Shirley Hazzard

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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Thomas Carlyle

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The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

William C. Brown

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Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.

Albert Mohler

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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

Henry David Thoreau

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The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

Howard Zinn

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It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Salman Rushdie

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Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

Claire Shipman

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Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.

Collin H. Woodward

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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merelyÂflowers.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

Frank Moore Colby

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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Robert Barr

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Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

Sam Harris

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Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

Stewart Edward White

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What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Andy Stanley

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It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

Ayn Rand

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Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

E. Nesbit

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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

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The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Hugh Lofting

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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

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We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Noam Chomsky

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If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.

Scott Tinley

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The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Walter Lippmann

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

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The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Alvar Aalto

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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

Confucius

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For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emile M. Cioran

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Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Frank Herbert

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Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

John Felstiner

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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

Peter De Vries

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Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren't merely objects of desire.

Sinead O'Connor

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

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If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

Thomas Nagel

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It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

Adrian Tan

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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

Aldous Huxley

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In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

Ayn Rand

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Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.

Charles Henry Mackintosh

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They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Edmund Wilson

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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.

Jill Bolte Taylor

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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

Sean Stephenson

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Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

Seth Godin

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I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moogâ¦

Vangelis

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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Oscar Wilde

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Customers who are merely satisfied remain your customers only as long as everything goes their way.

Chip R. Bell

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Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

Fernando Sabino

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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Henry David Thoreau

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This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

Henry Ford

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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Mahatma Gandhi

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A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

Arnold Bennett

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Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

D.T. Suzuki

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Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Helen Rowland

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History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Marcel Proust

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Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.

Michio Kushi

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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Mother Teresa

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The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Nicholas Lore

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It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Robert G. Picard

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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Albert Schweitzer

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We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

C. S. Lewis

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Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

Edward Abbey

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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

Ludwig von Mises

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Albert Einstein

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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

Georges Bernanos

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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

Haruki Murakami

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Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

Henry Ford

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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Jonathan Edwards

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You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Madame de Stael

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So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Norman Mailer

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I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

Seal

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In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Tracy Kidder

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The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

Alberto Manguel

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It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

George MacDonald

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Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Hugh Prather

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Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

Jeff Lindsay

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To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

John Smith

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Mark Twain

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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Mikhail Lermontov

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To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Timothy Keller

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Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

Vaclav Havel

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Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

A. A. Milne

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Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

Dale Spender

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The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

Lord Chesterfield

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Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

Matt Ridley

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Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

Thomas Dreier

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The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Winston Churchill

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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

Chinua Achebe

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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Epictetus

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Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

Helen Keller

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After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

Henry Howarth Bashford

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We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Thucydides

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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Vikram Seth

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You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

Elliot Perlman

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As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

Ivan Panin

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Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

Jean Berko Gleason

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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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All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

Martin Luther

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Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.

Paulo Coelho

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Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

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There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Alfred Stieglitz

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The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

Democritus

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Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Diana Trilling

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Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

Elspeth Huxley

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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

George Sutherland

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Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

I. L. Peretz

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To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Lord Chesterfield

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All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

Maurice Nicoll

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We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision

Roy Davis

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The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

Susan Sontag

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Oscar Wilde

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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

Charles Spurgeon

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If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

Denis Norden

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To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

Jonathan Edwards

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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

Margaret Fuller

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Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

Mortimer Adler

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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

Norm MacDonald

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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

Wendell Berry

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Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

William C. Bryant

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In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

Yehudi Menuhin

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Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed

Brian Stableford

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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.

Paul-Jean Toulet

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We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Bertrand Russell

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The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises....

Bob Edwards

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Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

Denis Diderot

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Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

Henry Van Dyke

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For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

Howard Lyman

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This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...

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Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

Mark Helprin

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Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

Mason Cooley

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Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

Napoleon Hill

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Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

Paulo Coelho

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In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Seth Godin

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All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

Theodore Roosevelt

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I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Spurgeon

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We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

E. Stanley Jones

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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Erica Jong

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It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

Erwin Rommel

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One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

Galen Beckett

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Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Hudson Taylor

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The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

J. C. Ryle

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Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order "in short, of government.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

Melina Marchetta

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I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

William Weld

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Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here's my message: as scary as the world is - and it is - it is merely a ride...

Bill Hicks

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Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

Chuck Wendig

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Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

Edmund Clowney

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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

May Sarton

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There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

W. A. Criswell

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Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.

Wayne Dyer

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To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Emile M. Cioran

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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

Henry David Thoreau

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We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

J. Golden Kimball

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'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Meghan O'Rourke

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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

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Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.

Goswami Kriyananda

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For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

Haddon W. Robinson

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Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

Hakim Bey

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With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

Herbert Gold

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A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Jack Sharkey

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Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Aldo Leopold

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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

C. S. Lewis

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

C. S. Lewis

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War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

Frank Chodorov

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At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

Franz Grillparzer

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The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon...

John A. Keel

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To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

Marshall McLuhan

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WennerstrÃ¶m was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal"it was business.

Steig Larsson

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A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

T. Harv Eker

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It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

Aldous Huxley

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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Barack Obama

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One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Gary Gygax

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...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

George Stigler

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Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel.

J. Sidlow Baxter

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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Mahatma Gandhi

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By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

Mike Svob

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If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

Ric Flair

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When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Richard Flanagan

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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

William P. Young

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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.

Haruki Murakami

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To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

John Hall Gladstone

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What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

Newton N. Minow

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No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

Peter Kreeft

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If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Phillips Brooks

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When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Richard Rohr

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Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Swami Vivekananda

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Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Timothy Keller

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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

Adam Clarke

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Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

Anna Julia Cooper

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Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

H. L. Mencken

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Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

Madeleine Vionnet

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The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.

Paulo Coelho

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If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus

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Sometimes I suspected Ryan was merely visiting the real world, on vacation from his permanent residence in la-la land.

Rachel Vincent

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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

Simone Weil

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The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows

Steve Fairbairn

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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Swami Vivekananda

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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

W.S. Gilbert

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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

William Shenstone

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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

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If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

Eric Temple Bell

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I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

Harry S. Truman

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Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

John F. Kennedy

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Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

Lea Salonga

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Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

Lin Yutang

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Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Mahatma Gandhi

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I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.

Norman Grubb

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The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

Richard A. Proctor

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The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Salvador de Madariaga

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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

Theodore Roosevelt

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I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

W. C. Fields

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True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.

Lisa Kleypas

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The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Margaret Fuller

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What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

Nora Roberts

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One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

Thomas Aquinas

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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Wendell Berry

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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Andrew Marr

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Leadership is meant merely to be lead-by-example.Anything given extra to support team result is just an icing on the top.

Anuj

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There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Baltasar Gracian

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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Galen

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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

Gregory Maguire

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Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

John Maynard Smith

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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Marcel Proust

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If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.

Paul Monroe

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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

Robert Kennedy

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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

Stanley Unwin