Merely Quotes

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Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world… — Thomas Merton
It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom… — Thomas Merton
To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved… — Thomas Merton
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts… — Rudolf Steiner
Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure. — Giuseppe Garibaldi
A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership. — S. Truett Cathy
I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest… — S. Truett Cathy
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not… — William Howard Taft
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… — Knut Hamsun
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause… — John L. Lewis
In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is… — R C Sproul
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. — Terry Gilliam
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation… — Lady Bird Johnson
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing… — J. C. R. Licklider
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediahâ€™s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality inÂ OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and… — David Limbaugh
War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars. — Norman Finkelstein
The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable… — Anagarika Govinda
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not… — Robert Collier

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