#merely

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

#canvas #dreams #i #i am #love

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#existence #exists #merely #philosopher #poet

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#after #became #chairman #discovered #existed

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

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. ↗

— Frank Crane

#because #corner #decide #driven #into

Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#cover #debt #entity #expensive #higher

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#does #give #give me #i #me