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- We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time…
- That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us…
- The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with all…
- If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into…
- Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion…
- The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in…
- Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the…
- Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
- During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if…
- If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
- We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What…
- Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
- The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has…
- A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan…
- The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
- It is not more than you can handle. It is merely more than you thought you could do.
- What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are…
- For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry…
- The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But…
- The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of…
More Merely Quotes
- 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