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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal. – Marvin E. Wolfgang	added by anonymous 14 years ago
True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is. – Victor Cousin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. – W. S. Gilbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. – Sydney J. Harris	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence. – Harold Laki	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. – Barbara Mikkelson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. – Peter Minard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. – Robert Morley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express. – Caldwell O'Keefe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. – Sir Ralph Richardson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. – John Witherspoon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If life is merely an illusion what can her truth be? – Sorin Cerin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
the hardest job is being a burden to everyone around you, when no one wants you around then you are merely useless. – angel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert Frost	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. – Giordano Bruno	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's not that age brings childhood back again; Age merely shows what children we remain. – German proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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