#mere

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

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#enjoy #exercising #get #like #lose

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cambridge #inmates #like #love #mere

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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