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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
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
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
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
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
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
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
— Peter Greenaway
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
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
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
Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
— Hugh Prather
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
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
All the world is a stage and we are merely players.
— William Shakespeare
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
married life is merely a habit, a bad habit.
— Oscar Wilde
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
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
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
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
A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.
— Stephen Sondheim
A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.
— Og Mandino