Merely Quotes

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. — Felix Frankfurter
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more… — Miguel de Cervantes
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an… — Herman E. Daly
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. — Thomas Jefferson
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions… — Ravi Zacharias
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. — Antonio Porchia
Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a… — Wallace D. Wattles
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share… — T. Harv Eker
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force,… — Ayn Rand
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces… — Albert Einstein

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