Merely Quotes

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Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or… — Henry David Thoreau
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is… — Ayn Rand
What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet… — Ludwig Buchner
I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W. S. Gilbert
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. — Adi Shankara
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling… — Sri Chinmoy
On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more… — Alan Moore
Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less, but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining... I would require him… — James Dobson
Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through… — Elizabeth Dole
Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God. — Paul Washer
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result,… — Auguste Escoffier
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no… — Lynne Cheney
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. — Peter Schiff
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you… — Rosser Reeves
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a… — Thomas Merton

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