#mere

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

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#animal #animal life #appetite #eats #healthy

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#anything #change #control #cult thing #decide

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic #atomic energy #created #energy #existing

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ↗

— Mark Twain

#egg #hen #laid #merely #noise