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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. ↗

— George Edward Moore

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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. ↗

— Louis Mumford

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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. ↗

— James Oliver

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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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The feeble soul merely whines and complains. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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