#merely

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#head #merely #pants #standing #torn

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create! ↗

— Robert Collier

#create #dream #every #fact #into

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#lose #many #merely #people #seeing

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#against #merely #themselves #you

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#made #merely #misused #necessarily #occasion

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#form #merely #most #obvious #our

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#evolving #existing #information #merely #physical

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#die #helps #know #knowledge #merely