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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. — Voltaire
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide… — Mark Twain
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. — Tom Robbins
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good,… — Dean Koontz
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The… — Thomas Jefferson
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.… — Douglas Adams
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are… — Bruno Schulz
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"… — P.J. O'Rourke
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most… — Richard Paul Evans
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted… — Hermann Hesse
But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely… — J D Salinger
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and… — Robert A. Heinlein
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes… — Neil Postman
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. — Tom Robbins
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic… — Paulo Freire
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. — David Hume
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct… — Amy Tan
Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself.… — Carter G. Woodson
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air… — Henry David Thoreau
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code… — Harper Lee
You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did — Elliot Perlman

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