#mere

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm. ↗

— David Keith

#another #bag #charm #fake #his

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#better #cooler #hammered #head #just

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#clearly #difference #feel #few #few men

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. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#himself #life #man #merely #strand

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#chatter #gossip #human #human race #lovers

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#after #captures #coercion #him #man

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#based #behavior #cowardly #eternal #ethical

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does