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Merely Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
- Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not…
- The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms…
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- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release?… — Nellie Bly
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C.S. Lewis
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne