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There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of… — Henry Hazlitt
This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another –… — Sebastian Faulks
Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. — Rupert Sheldrake
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.… — Fulton J. Sheen
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. — William Henry O'Connell
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. — Paul Virilio
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications… — Manly Hall
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most… — Charlton Laird
The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities. — Peter Farb
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential… — Jill Tweedie
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way. — Hugh Lofting
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel… — George Bernard Shaw
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a… — Henry Adams
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability. — Marya Mannes
Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this… — Lynn Andrews
I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson

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