Merely Quotes

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Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? — Salman Rushdie
Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as… — John Muir
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such… — Albert Einstein
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think… — Marilynne Robinson
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.… — Tom Robbins
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have… — Sebastian Horsley
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object â€“ we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to… — C.S. Lewis
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day… — Samuel Johnson
You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?â€ called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. â€œAbove such brutality, are you?â€ â€œWe both know that there are… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer… — Aristotle
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. — P.G. Wodehouse
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it… — Warren Buffett
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I… — Alice Sebold
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? — Unknown Author
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius
However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue… — Meg Cabot
But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur;… — Susanna Clarke
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
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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