Merely Quotes
3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors
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A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade…
— John Gresham Machen
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The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they…
— Joseph Sobran
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So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not…
— Theodor Adorno
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The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is…
— Herbert Marcuse
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It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and…
— Max Born
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The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when…
— Ferdinand Mount
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Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual…
— Rene Dubos
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The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff…
— Dan Farmer
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Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that…
— Lukas Foss
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We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult…
— Nina Fedoroff
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Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.
— Phillip E. Johnson
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God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free…
— Peter Kreeft
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The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.
— William C. Brown
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You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following…
— Goh Chok Tong
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
— Erica Jong
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Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example…
— Jairam Ramesh
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It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with…
— Josephine Tey
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To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously.…
— Todd Hido
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Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
— Paracelsus
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