Merely Quotes

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Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. — John McCarthy
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. — James Oliver
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them. — Cliff Shaw
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. — Michael Gerber
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. — Clifford Stoll
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an… — John Bates Clark
Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes… — Seth Lloyd
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but… — Anthony Holden
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain,… — Robert Trout
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all… — Walter Kaufmann
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex… — Phillip E. Johnson
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been… — John Clayton
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be… — Oliver Joseph Lodge
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in… — Jay Alan Sekulow
Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. — Maurice Gibb
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike… — Lucian Freud
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it. — William H. Seward
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. — Charles Hodge

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