Merely Quotes

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...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body… — Vin Weber
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the… — Michael Ignatieff
We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can… — Garry Kasparov
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help… — Scott Turow
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man.… — Herbert Spencer
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the… — David Ben-Gurion
I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary… — James Garner
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are… — Edwin Newman
When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy… — Upton Sinclair
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. — Sam Brownback
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question… — Henry Mitchell
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live… — Bruce Sterling
We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our… — Theodore C. Sorensen
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in… — Arthur Scargill
He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing… — Leslie Charteris
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. — Paul Samuelson
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. — Baruch Spinoza
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power… — Adrienne Rich
Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action.… — Mao Zedong
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good,… — Mao Zedong

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