Merely Quotes

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What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been… — Adolf Hitler
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The… — Pope Benedict XVI
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. — A J Liebling
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely… — Mark Twain
Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole… — Louis Bromfield
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old… — Marianne Williamson
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about. — Thomas Aquinas
The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are… — Vaclav Havel
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… — Wendell Berry
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only… — Paramahansa Yogananda
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are… — Paramahansa Yogananda
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day… — William O. Douglas
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -… — Carl Sagan
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man… — Ayn Rand

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