They Merely Quotes

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant.… — Jim Rohn
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the… — Henry David Thoreau
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to… — Jean Baudrillard
As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive… — John Mills
Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!! — Jack Kirby
The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world… — Martin Heidegger
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic… — James Burnham
Laws do not stop crime; they merely make noise about crime. Â They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Â Well, that… — Jacque Fresco
We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our… — Anna Julia Cooper
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,… — Douglas Adams
I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create… — Abram Hoffer
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. — Hector Hugh Munro
Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a… — Wei Wu Wei
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to… — Jim Bishop
Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them. — Brian Tracy
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt

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