Merely Quotes

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Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence… — Douglas Hofstadter
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep… — Paramahansa Yogananda
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. Thatâ€™s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be… — Masashi Kishimoto
I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely… — Peter Cameron
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. — E. M. Forster
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's… — Jenna Blum
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the… — Karen Marie Moning
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world… — Alain de Botton
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not… — Toni Morrison
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests — Karl Lagerfeld
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors. — Kurt Vonnegut
Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"… — Joseph Heller
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty… — C.S. Lewis
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did… — Chief Seattle
WennerstrÃ¶m was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminalâ€“it was business. — Steig Larsson

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