Merely Quotes

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Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. — Clifford Stoll
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an… — John Bates Clark
Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes… — Seth Lloyd
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but… — Anthony Holden
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain,… — Robert Trout
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all… — Walter Kaufmann
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex… — Phillip E. Johnson
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been… — John Clayton
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be… — Oliver Joseph Lodge
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in… — Jay Alan Sekulow
Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. — Maurice Gibb
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike… — Lucian Freud
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it. — William H. Seward
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. — Charles Hodge
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God,… — Charles Hodge
They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel… — Erich Maria Remarque
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to… — Juan Goytisolo
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of… — Charles Scott Sherrington
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because… — Herbert Croly
In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did… — A. E. van Vogt
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the… — Alan Dundes
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may… — Lajos Kossuth
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices. — Knute Rockne

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