#merely

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. ↗

— Jean Dubuffet

#completely #eventual #expect #extinction #goodbye

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#achievement #amply #enable #enrich #errand

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#circumstances #determine #go #merely #present

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#merely #more #speech #than #ways

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#any #art #consequences #consists #economics

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#circumstances #general #greater #hurry #i

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. ↗

— Robert Bork

#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#buy #courts #expensive #hints #images

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#been #handed #merely #now #over

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#effect #hardly #individual #judge #merely