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The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape. — William Badke

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. — Theodore Roosevelt

A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy. — Seneca.

About things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with — Barbara Sher

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. — Paul Monroe

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more. — Ricky Gervais

my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person. — Mark Twain

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. — Karl Marx

Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool? — Milan Kundera

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself. — Richard M. Nixon

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals. — Tony Robbins

Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well. — Lea Salonga

A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She — Joe Abercrombie

It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter. — Stephane Audeguy

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. — Anthony Burgess

Sometime it is necessary for us to go a step further than merely writing words on paper. — Lisa Conell

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. — David Lloyd George

A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way. — Leonard Ravenhill

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow. — Jess Walter

Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses. — Oscar Wilde

A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct. — Kilroy J. Oldster

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed. — Paracelsus

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you. — Suzanne Brockmann

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal. — Francine Prose

Deep blue. She was beautiful, not merely pretty, but there was in her eyes the haughty disdain of a queen reprimanding a clumsy subject. — Louis L'Amour

As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment. — Anne Rice

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind
a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. — Woody Allen

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. — Peter Greenaway

Life is a thing to be experienced; not merely tolerated. — A.L. Hearn

I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog ... — Vangelis

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. — Randall Dale Adams

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one. — Jack Sharkey

An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself. — Richelle E. Goodrich

An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world. — James Hillman

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.' — Mark Twain

Does Christianity merely mean we must forfeit our Sunday mornings to church attendance, or does being a Christian noticeably improve our lives? — Richard Blackaby

And while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied. — Tom Robbins

Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception. — Donald L. Hicks

As much as any of the old-timers, he regarded the Depression as not over and done with but merely absent for a while, like Halley's comet. — Wendell Berry

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. — Albert Einstein

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. — George Bernard Shaw

Worship isn't merely a yes to the God who saves, but also a resounding and furious no to the lies that echo in the mountains around us. — Mike Cosper

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God. — Charles Spurgeon

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Velva wasn't merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet. — Mav Skye

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield. — Hugh Prather

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. — Paul Cezanne

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. — Ludwig Von Mises

In a real way, eternity is merely the living of one human lifetime after another. — Anne Rice

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives. — Bill Crawford

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us. — Guy Gavriel Kay

A man who can kill several people with a sword is merely a living weapon. A great warrior can kill thousands of men with just his mind. — Ken Liu

All the world is a stage and we are merely players. — William Shakespeare

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes. — Orson Scott Card

All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. — Milton William Cooper

Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The — John Bunyan

Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them. — Paulo Coelho

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson. — Nick Offerman

The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream. — William Shakespeare

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. — Yehudi Menuhin

Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad. — Pitigrilli

married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. — Oscar Wilde

Silence and patience are not merely cowardliness, its a symbol of strength. — Rahul Rawat

The animating fire of life is merely a total devotion to living. — Bryant McGill

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. — John Ruskin

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics ... Religion is merely a matter between man and God. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. — Marie Corelli

A man with a rifle is a citizen; a man without one is merely a subject. — Mark Horton

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood. — Theodore Roosevelt

For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury. — Jolene Tan

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. — Thomas Sowell

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. — Norman Douglas

It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there. — Charles R. Swindoll

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. — Billy Joel

Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning — Arlene Goldbard

Sex is not merely an entertainment; it is a courtesy and affability. — M.F. Moonzajer

The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated. — Ben Macintyre

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it. — Kaoru Kurimoto

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. — Helen Rowland

Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing. — Nikola Tesla

Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say. — Jennifer Stone

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy. — Stephen Sondheim

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. — Karl Marx

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. — Og Mandino