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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. Edward Albee | top
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Democritus | top
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The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. Jonathan Dimbleby | top
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas | top
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart | top
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. Epicurus | top
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Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority . Suzanne Fields | top
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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. George Gallup | top
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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. Theodore Gericault | top
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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. Henry Hazlitt | top
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The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Martin Heidegger | top
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If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. Edward Hopper | top
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume | top
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Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James | top
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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. James Weldon Johnson | top
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Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. Phillip E. Johnson | top
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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 | top
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx | top
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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. Ernst Mayr | top
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. Hector Hugh Munro | top
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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 | top
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. Ezra Pound | top
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Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. Paul Samuelson | top
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I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it. William H. Seward | top
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. Xun Zi | top
