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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	added by anonymous 10 years ago
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. – Christopher Morley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of – Gore Vidal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod. – Franklin D. Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. – Norman Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create! – Robert Collier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. – Claude M. Bristol	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. – Peter Ustinov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy – Immanuel Kant	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poets, the writers, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poets voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. – William Faulkner	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. – Michael Korda	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. – Michael Korda	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle. – Adrienne Rich	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. – William Faulkner	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. – Saki	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. – Saki	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men – Epicurus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. – Tacitus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. – Stendhal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. – Rabindranath Tagore	added by anonymous 10 years ago

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