Merely Quotes

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I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These… — Gil Scott-Heron
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know? — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Money is merely a reward for solving problems. — Mike Murdock
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself,… — Alexander Herzen
In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing… — Vissarion Belinsky
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire… — Sergey Nechayev
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky
There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward… — Chaim Weizmann
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. — George Bernard Shaw
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them — Lev S. Vygotsky
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools… — Hunter S. Thompson
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined… — Dan Simmons
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a â€™self-proclaimed artistâ€™ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art… — Keith Haring
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special… — Emil Zatopek
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend… — James Weldon Johnson
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. — Georges Bernanos
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best.Â You want to be considered the only one who does what… — Jerry Garcia

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