Merely Quotes

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War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations… — Fred Brooks
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries
It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us. — Mahatma Gandhi
The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Merely to exist is not enough. — Rabindranath Tagore
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side… — Rabindranath Tagore
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female,… — Nikolai Berdyaev
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. — Henry David Thoreau
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would… — Henry David Thoreau
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event. — C.S. Lewis
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity. — Walker Percy
Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve helped shape their… — Bristol Palin
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in… — Rabindranath Tagore
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the… — Steven Chu
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see… — Mahatma Gandhi
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon… — John F. Kennedy
The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants. — Walter Lippmann
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome… — Walter Lippmann

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