#merely

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.


John Witherspoon


#begun #book #merely #never #read

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.


Carter G. Woodson


#failed #failure #government #merely #slavery

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.


H. L. Mencken


#before #found #had #means #merely

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.


Hector Hugh Munro


#children #grow #know #merely #more

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.


Julian Cope


#am #appear #away #because #create

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.


Lukas Foss


#charisma #convinced #essential #every #everyone

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.


Lucian Freud


#being #between #distinction #does #element

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.


Ed Harris


#conservative #country #current #current administration #extreme

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.


Mark Twain


#been #indicate #merely #should #smiles

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.


Heinrich Himmler


#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases