Merely Quotes

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Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true. — Frederick Buechner
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of… — Norman Borlaug
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic… — James Burnham
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… — Herman Wouk
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its… — Rabindranath Tagore
When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has… — Arthur C. Clarke
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have… — Glenn Miller
Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are. — Unknown Author
True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. — Laurell K. Hamilton
To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human. — J. Oswald Sanders
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other,… — Kenneth Lee Pike
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from… — Jean de la Bruyere
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince oneâ€™s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policyâ€”what an older and less elegant generation… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Hitler did not have Mussolinis revolutionary socialist background. . . . Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the bourgeoisie and capitalism and… — Richard Pipes
War is merely a continuation of politics, — Carl von Clausewitz
True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against oneâ€”and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them. — L. Ron Hubbard
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton

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