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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension… — Marshall McLuhan
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely… — Margaret Mead
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. — H. L. Mencken
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians… — H. L. Mencken
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. — H. L. Mencken
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which… — John Stuart Mill
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion… — John Stuart Mill
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. — Henry Miller
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the… — Henry Miller
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge,… — David Mitchell
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders… — Moliere
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. — Michel de Montaigne
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. — George Edward Moore
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be… — Edward R. Murrow
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the… — Jawaharlal Nehru
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof… — Friedrich Nietzsche
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real'… — Chuck Palahniuk
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. — Norman Vincent Peale
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. — Laurence J. Peter
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing… — Sylvia Plath
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably… — Ezra Pound

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