#merely

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Paul Virilio

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