#mere

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#doing #fact #focus #high #high school

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#any #fully #genetic #important #important point

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#down #high #higher #lift #little

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#enough #find #joy #life #living

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#external #external world #mere #only #perspective

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#also #day #deal #emperors #everywhere

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#elasticity #i #merely #rules #test

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#agreed #carefully #did #evidence #go

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#censor #code #literature #merely #moral

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#factor #me #mere #problem #unit