#merely

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

— Harry S. Truman

#arsenal #atom #atom bomb #bomb #decision

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#does #globalization #light #merely #speed

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#covers #days #did #early #felt

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. ↗

— George Woodcock

#called #discipline #early #english #english school

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#different #each #evidence #gifts #indicates

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. ↗

— Leonard Woolley

#bad thing #becomes #business #ceases #digging

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#aspire #hero #merely #rather #than

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth