#merely

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ↗

— Albert Camus

#expend #merely #nobody #normal #people

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#angry #any #beyond #company #deny

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— William James

#many #merely #people #prejudices #rearranging

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— William James

#merely #people #prejudices #rearranging #their

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#merely #naturalistic #philosophy #product #support

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#certain #certain things #co-operate #co-operation #commitment

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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