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Merely Quotes by Tom Robbins
- Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable…
- My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
- Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
- Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
- Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
- If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.…
- I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for…
- Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that…
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- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C.S. Lewis
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson