Merely Quotes

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A home without a dog is merely a shelter. — Stephen Huneck
The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced… — John F. Kennedy
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the… — James Lovelock
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely… — Russell Page
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against… — Maureen Dowd
More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in… — Dick Morris
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down… — Barbara Johnson
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of… — Benjamin Hoff
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is… — Edmund Burke
... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part… — Whittaker Chambers
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important… — Edward Steichen
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with… — Mark Twain
I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere… — James Agate
Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power… — B.F. Skinner
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they… — Emile Zola
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic. — David Dellinger
But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our… — Eusebius
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within… — Murray Bookchin
What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race… — Mark Twain
Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires… — Shakti Gawain
If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a… — John Templeton
The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on to what is… — John Templeton
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is… — Thomas Merton

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