Merely Quotes

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Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan. — Joel Fuhrman
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate… — Robert Greene
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their… — Robert Greene
Our lives are merely trees of possibilities. — Marc Bolan
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C.S. Lewis
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not… — Stanley Hauerwas
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. — Ferdinand de Saussure
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played — Arnold Schoenberg
One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties… — Murasaki Shikibu
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a… — Athanasius of Alexandria
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more… — Frans de Waal
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among… — Thomas Nagel
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. — Thornton Wilder
When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances… — Thomas Dreier
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely… — Henry David Thoreau
To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all… — Henry David Thoreau
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they… — William Hazlitt

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