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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Power
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Positively
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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
Another
Arsenal
Atom
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Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.
Emily Post
Manners
Primary
Colors
Rules
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The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.
Emily Post
Money
Commodity
Intrinsically
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Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.
Emily Post
Consideration
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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert Humphrey
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P. G. Wodehouse
Marriage
Process
Prolonging
Life
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
Galen
Those
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Acts
Ages
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Entrance
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare
Ambitious
Dream
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Shadow
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich Schiller
Merely
Enemy
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere
Arisen
Blunders
Books
Dancing
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick The Great
Crown
Merely
Hat
Rain
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.
Malcolm Cowley
Fear
Dependent
Young
Child
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
Adult
Age
Am
Another
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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
Maria Montessori
Belonging
Chemistry
Child
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead
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Based
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J. Edgar Hoover
Justice
Law
Law And Order
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
Cast
Chains
Enhances
Free
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron
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Continually
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One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.
Nora Ephron
About
Best
Blame
Confusion
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
Be Happy
God
Happy
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Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
George Foreman
Filling
A need
Attitude
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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
G. E. Moore
Moral laws
Statements
Kind
Actions
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas
Discovers
Found
Friends
He
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
Between
Difference
Fuzzy
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
Cross
Merely
Sea
Standing
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
Does
Education
Existence
Give
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
Robert Anton Wilson
Because
Dull
Exciting
Jersey
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Robert Greene
Consumption
Goals
Heights
Pleasure
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May
Adult
Also
Being
Beyond
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What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland
Conscience
Mental action
Sentimental reaction
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
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Gregarious
Human
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I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball
Big
Children
Everything
Grow
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It’s time to stop being part of the problem by speaking out about the culture of harmful practices and impunity that has led to needless murders. We are not merely showing discontent but addressing the need to change the reinforcement of this impunity & negligence.
Segun Awosanya (Segalink)
Speaking
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Murders
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
An anarchist
Politics
Impressionist
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America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
David Brooks
Certain
Dreams
Clash
Culture
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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.
Howard Hughes
Impossible
Almost everyone
Ideas
Fantasies
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A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
Emile Durkheim
A person
Single subject
Distinguished
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Jay Z
More concerned
Character
Reputation
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If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.
Terry Goodkind
Defend
Your light
Own lives
Mice
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it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
George Stigler
Distressing
One can
The answer given
Economic question
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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.
Thomas S. Monson
Treat people
They are
Remain
Treat them
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Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.
Tony Dungy
Avoidance
Solve anything
Merely serve
Temporary salve
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
Alan Simpson
Liberal distinguished
Whatever nourishes
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Spirit
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Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else.
Alan Simpson
Money's dominance
Over politics
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Growing crisis
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We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death
Alexander Herzen
We think
Purpose
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The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.
Aleister Crowley
The man
Denounces
Life
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Alfred Tennyson
Unconceivable
Whole universe
Created
Who live
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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry
Applause
Comes thundering
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Audience
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