Merely Quotes

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Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard… — Dick Morris
As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive… — Patrick Lencioni
Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate… — John Calvin
Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics. — Unknown Author
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility. — Bernard Law Montgomery
Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get… — Honor Blackman
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been… — Edward Smith
In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is… — Rowan Atkinson
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves… — Robert Penn Warren
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that youâ€™re capable of far more than… — Paulo Coelho
I write poetry because I canâ€™t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long… — Gabriela Mistral
The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We… — Nelson Mandela
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is… — Pablo Picasso
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. — Hippocrates
Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the… — Vsevolod Pudovkin
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. — Alfred Jarry
For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still… — Neal A. Maxwell
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the countryâ€™s dissidents and marginalized who bear… — Glenn Greenwald
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There… — Lucian Freud

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