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Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since… — J. William Fulbright
You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into… — Mike Mentzer
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and… — Douglas Hofstadter
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when… — Bobby Jones
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams. — Rick Pitino
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and… — J. B. Priestley
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know. — William Rose Benet
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America… — George C. Marshall
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer... — Lewis Mumford
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy… — William Shakespeare
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold

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