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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. – C. S. Lewis	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. – John Updike	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. – May Sarton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm	added by anonymous 10 years ago
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. – E. E. Cummings	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit. – Joan Didion	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. – Wallace Stevens	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. – Emma Goldman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives. – Peace Pilgrim	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. – G. I. Gurdjieff	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The object of the poet is not to accurately describe an emotion brought about from an experience, but rather, the poem is an acknowledgement that words have rendered themselves useless and the attempt to write is merely an acknowledgement of that moment – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
If you are satisfied emotionally and substantially you will bear all life nightmares, but if you are poor emotionally and substantially your life will be merely a nightmare. – Fefe	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Ideas that do not get into action are merely fantasies. – Vijay Samuel Benjamin	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Those who construct loyalty programs through frequent-flyer points and the like, are merely trying to trap the customer. Loyalty must come naturally, not via points and schemes. If your customers are loyal to you as a result of such programs, then surely you realize that they are not loyal. Such schemes are tangible, and tangible things are susceptible to the law of annihilation. Anything that you do, can be matched by your competitor. – Jonar Nader	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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 capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... – Dean Gordon Brown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. – E. B. White	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. – Doctor Who	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. – Machiavelli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. – Chateaubriand	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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