Merely Quotes

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There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk â€˜his life, his fortune and his sacred… — Robert A. Heinlein
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate.… — Charles Hodge
Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd? — Edward Bellamy
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which… — John D. Rockefeller
Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet… — George Foreman
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to… — Clarence Thomas
Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW. — Napoleon Hill
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived. — Emile M. Cioran
The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out… — Frances Power Cobbe
I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People… — Douglas MacArthur
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power,… — Frank Knight
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary… — Tom Stoppard
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity. — Norm MacDonald
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as… — Arnold Bennett

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