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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
I don't try to copy anybody - I mean, I'm not trying to become another Sinatra. I merely sing the way I speak.
Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.
I am of the opinion that even if my role is merely 10 minutes long, it needs to leave an impact on the audiences.
We will cooperate with whoever is best... as long as they choose us as well. It cannot be merely unrequited love.
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
Drones don't stop people from coming across the border, they merely tell you that someone is coming across the border.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.