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Max Beerbohm To say that a man is... Hans Bender Good and evil do not exist... William R. Benet And now there is merely... Cyrano de Bergerac The insufferable arrogance of human... Georges Bernanos Faith is not a thing which... Kathryn Bigelow The Communist regime didn't consider... Steven Biko Merely by describing yourself as... Jim Bishop Archaeology is the peeping Tom... Gary Ryan Blair Do more than is required. What... Nellie Bly How can a doctor judge a... William J. H. Boetcker What a different world this... Niels Bohr You are not thinking. You are... Napoleon Bonaparte Ambition never is in a greater... Napoleon Bonaparte A man cannot become an atheist... Edward Bond Violence is hidden within democratic... Arna Bontemps How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher... George Boole To unfold the secret laws and... Robert Bork Being 'at the mercy of... Norman Borlaug Man can and must prevent the... George Borrow It has been said that idleness... Jack Bowman Basically the school system sets... Andrew C. Bradley We might not object to the... Johannes Brahms We cling nervously to the... Marlon Brando Privacy is not something that... Hermann Broch Were one merely to seek... Harold Brodkey I awake with a not entirely... Harold Brodkey God is an immensity, while... Phillips Brooks A prayer in its simplest... David Brooks America is not just a... Les Brown In day-to-day commerce... Eric Brown Which, of course, isn't the... Sam Brownback It is time for the government... Giordano Bruno It is proof of a base... Frances Hodgson Burnett I am writing in the garden... Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I... Edgar Rice Burroghs She did not admire him any... Taylor Caldwell The feeble soul merely whines... John Calvin Is it faith to understand... Albert Camus Nobody realizes that some people... Henry Charles Carey In 1833, protection was abandoned... John Carmack Because of the nature of... Bliss Carman I often wish... that I could... Bliss Carman What are facts but compromises... Mary C. Carpenter I don't think you need to... Alexis Carrel Science has to be understood... Paul Cezanne One does not substitute oneself... Leslie Charteris He believes in romance. He... Anton Chekhov The only difference between doctors... Anton Chekhov Doctors are just the same as... Anton Chekhov Doctors are the same as... Lynne Cheney I soon discovered, after I... Charles W. Chesnutt Impossibilities are merely things of... Lord Chesterfield Wear your learning like your... Lord Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more... Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to... Gilbert K. Chesterton Thieves respect property. They merely... Gilbert K. Chesterton The present condition of fame... Lydia M. Child That a majority of women do... Steven Chu Education in my family was not... Emile M. Cioran For you who no longer posses... John Bates Clark Dull would be the man who... Karl Von Clausewitz War is not merely a political... Henry Clay The Constitution of the United... John Clayton Could the one whom Christians... Cleopatra My honour was not yielded, but... William Kingdon Clifford The danger to society is not... Irvin S. Cobb Humor is merely tragedy standing... Frank Moore Colby Many people lose their tempers... Frank Moore Colby A 'new thinker', when studied... Frank Moore Colby If a large city can, after... Robert Collier Make every thought, every fact... Charles Horton Cooley A man may lack everything but... Mason Cooley Thinking about the universe has... Mason Cooley Expensive advertising courts us with... Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by... Aaron Copland A melody is not merely... Victor Cousin True philosophy invents nothing; it... Stephen Covey Public behavior is merely private... Frank Crane Most of the things we decide... Francis Crick We are sometimes asked what... Herbert Croly Our country was thereby saved... e. e. cummings At least the Pilgrim Fathers... Will Cuppy Aristotle taught that the brain... Will Cuppy Aristotle was famous for knowing... Salvador Dali The thermometer of success is... Ram Dass It is important to expect... Democritus Good means not merely not to... Savitri Devi Europe is merely powerful; India... Jonathan Dimbleby The challenge is the culture... Benjamin Disraeli The governments of the present... James Dobson My observation is that women... David H. Donald But I have tried to go... Norman Douglas Many a man who thinks to... William O. Douglas Literature should not be suppressed... Elizabeth Drew Travel, instead of broadening the... Elizabeth Drew Too often travel, instead of... Jean Dubuffet Unless one says goodbye to... Marcel Duchamp I am interested in ideas, not... Georges Duhamel Suffering has roused them from... Alan Dundes They do not merely collect... Henry Van Dyke There is a loftier ambition... Amelia Earhart The most difficult thing is... Crystal Eastman I would not have a woman... Nelson Eddy Let's have the music that will... Charles Edison In physics, to be in two... Charles Edison In view of our public pledges... Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion... Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy... Duke Ellington I merely took the energy it... Nora Ephron I am continually fascinated at... Epicurus There is no such thing as... Antoine de Saint-Exupery One can be a brother only... William Falconer I believe that man will not... William Faulkner I believe that man will not... William Faulkner Man will not merely endure; he... William Feather Not a tenth of us who... Brian Ferneyhough The Western musical canon came... Suzanne Fields Many critics of the Palestinians... Ronald Fisher To consult the statistician after... Malcolm Forbes Those who enjoy responsibility usually... E. M. Forster Tolerance is a very dull... Harry Emerson Fosdick Christians are supposed not merely... Harry Emerson Fosdick Life asks not merely what you... Lukas Foss Personality is essential. It is... Gene Fowler Men are not against you; they... Janet Frame Writing a novel is not merely... Felix Frankfurter Wisdom too often never comes... Sigmund Freud Opposition is not necessarily enmity... Lucian Freud There is a distinction between... Richard Le Gallienne Perhaps we too seldom reflect... George Gallup Polling is merely an instrument... Mohandas Gandhi A 'No' uttered from the... Giuseppe Garibaldi I offer neither pay, nor... Patrick Geddes Instead of isolating our school... David Lloyd George Liberty is not merely a... Michael Gerber Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians... Theodore Gericault With the brush we merely tint... Katharine Fullerton Gerould Civilization is merely an advance... Maurice Gibb Barry seems to be more... Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativity often consists of merely... Andre Gide To read a writer is for... Hermann Goering Would you rather have butter... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Age merely shows what children... Emma Goldman Merely external emancipation has made... Stephen Jay Gould When people learn no tools of... Juan Goytisolo For a country is not merely... Baltasar Gracian Aspire rather to be a hero... Frederick The Great A crown is merely a hat... John Grierson Political conflicts distort and disturb... George Grosz I don't even like to talk... G. I. Gurdjieff Religion is doing; a man does... George Gurdjieff Religion is doing; a man does... Margaret Halsey The English never smash in a... Alexander Hamilton Men often oppose a thing... Guy Hamilton My guess is that if they... Sydney J. Harris Knowledge fills a large brain... Ed Harris I love this country very much... Tom Hayden Why should American atrocities be... Friedrich August von Hayek It seems to me that socialists... Henry Hazlitt The art of economics consists... William Hazlitt We often choose a friend as... Martin Heidegger The German language speaks Being... Robert A. Heinlein Sex without love is merely... Robert A. Heinlein The difference between science and... O. Henry East is East, and West is... Thomas W. Higginson The test of an author is... Napoleon Hill Happiness is found in doing... Heinrich Himmler I am not making spiteful... Edward Hoagland In order to really enjoy a... Charles Hodge Our first remark on this... Charles Hodge Our second remark is, that the... Charles Hodge So too, in forming a... Eric Hoffer Propaganda does not deceive people... Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me... Anthony Holden The architect, Peter Arens who... Ernest Holmes The intellect is a cold thing... Edward Hopper If the technical innovations of... David Hume Beauty is no quality in things... Hubert H. Humphrey It is not enough to merely... Zora Neale Hurston Sometimes, I feel discriminated against... Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided... Aldous Huxley Your true traveller finds boredom... Aldous Huxley Hell isn't merely paved with... King Hussein I I will never work merely to... Henrik Ibsen One of the qualities of... Dean Inge Democracy is only an experiment... Joichi Ito Upholding human rights is not... William James A great many people think they... William James If merely 'feeling good' could... William James Many people think they are... Alfred Jarry Applause that comes thundering with... Edward Jenner I shall endeavour still further... Billy Joel I consider myself to be an... Billy Joel I am, as I've said, merely... Phillip E. Johnson Darwinism is not merely a... Phillip E. Johnson Evolutionary biologists are not content... James Weldon Johnson Americans are immensely popular in... Bobby Jones Some people think they are... E. Stanley Jones Prayer is commitment. We don't... Martin Luther King, Jr. We will have to repent in... Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace is not merely a distant... Martin Luther King, Jr. We must concentrate not merely... James L. Farmer, Jr. Inner city education must change... Martin Luther King, Jr. We who in engage in nonviolent... Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I have no respect for the... Martin Luther King, Jr. We who engage in nonviolent... Immanuel Kant It is not God's will merely... Walter Kaufmann The doctrine of original sin... William L. M. King Just when we most need to... Florence King In social matters, pointless conventions... Jeane Kirkpatrick A government is not legitimate... Jeane Kirkpatrick I conclude that it is a... Michael Korda The freedom to fail is vital... Michael Korda The biggest fool in the world... Lajos Kossuth Men like me, who merely wish... Jiddu Krishnamurti Your belief in God is merely... Hans Kung However, if the religions in... Christian L. Lange No state is free from... Jessica Lange Successful model? That's a myth... Christopher Lasch Drugs are merely the most... David Herbert Lawrence All that we know is nothing... C. S. Lewis Part of every misery is, so... John L. Lewis The men in the steel industry... A. J. Liebling Chicago seems a big city... Charles de Lint Witchery is merely a word for... Seth Lloyd Merely by existing and evolving... Seth Lloyd I would suggest, merely as a... Oliver J. Lodge We know that communication must... Hugh Lofting The fact that I have been... H. P. Lovecraft If religion were true, its... Patrick MacGill To the soldier, luck is merely... Niccolo Machiavelli Men ought either to be... Catharine MacKinnon In a society in which equality... Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps... Gustav Mahler In its beginnings, music was... Henry James Sumner Maine The Roman Code was merely an... Nelson Mandela For to be free is not... Karl Marx While the miser is merely a... Karl Marx The human being is in the... Rollo May Creativity is not merely the... Henry Mayhew Facts, according to my ideas... Ernst Mayr Evolution thus is merely contingent... Thabo Mbeki When will the day come that... John McCarthy Committing genocide on behalf of... Bryant H. McGill It is better to have a... Bryant H. McGill True education is limited to... Phyllis McGinley Gossip isn't scandal and it's... Marshall McLuhan The medium is the message... Robert McNamara Coercion, after all, merely captures... Margaret Mead It is an open question whether... Golda Meir One cannot and must not try... Herman Melville There is no quality in this... H. L. Mencken When a new source of taxation... H. L. Mencken To be in love is merely... H. L. Mencken Husbands never become good; they... Moses Mendelssohn I fear that, in the end... Moses Mendelssohn You know how much I am... Paul J. Meyer Mistakes are merely steps up... John Stuart Mill All political revolutions, not affected... John Stuart Mill The only part of the conduct... Henry Miller Art is only a means to... Henry Miller Analysis brings no curative powers... Czeslaw Milosz Human material seems to have... Moliere All the ills of mankind, all... Michel de Montaigne A straight oar looks bent in... Eugenio Montale There is poetry even in prose... Bernard Law Montgomery Air power is indivisible. If... George Edward Moore All moral laws are merely... Robert Morley Anyone who works is a fool... Christopher Morley God made man merely to hear... Louis Mumford In war, the army is not... Hector Hugh Munro Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't... Edward R. Murrow The newest computer can merely... Jawaharlal Nehru Peace is not a relationship of... John George Nicolay Nobody understood better than Mr... Friedrich Nietzsche Art is not merely an imitation... Friedrich Nietzsche We often refuse to accept an... Robert Nozick What hadn't been realized in... William H. O'Connell The march to our duty here... James Oliver The world is blessed most by... Leo Ornstein Besides merely some pleasure that... Ida Rentoul Outhwaite There is something magical in... Robert D. Owens I do not mean that you... Talcott Parsons A theoretical system does not... Norman Vincent Peale Getting people to like you is... Laurence J. Peter You can't cross the sea merely... Kenneth L. Pike Language is not merely a set... Sylvia Plath Apparently, the most difficult feat... Marcus V. Pollio I, therefore, O Caesar, do not... Ezra Pound I consider criticism merely a... Marcel Proust Every reader finds himself. The... Hilary Putnam No sane person should believe... Suzi Quatro The bass player's function, along... Nido Qubein Your present circumstances don't determine... Jean Racine Without money honor is merely... Ramakrishna Many good sayings are to be... Ramakrishna The physicians of one class... Leopold Von Ranke You have reckoned that history... Herbert Read These groups within a society... Herbert Read The point I am making is... Herbert Read If the individual is a unit... Herbert Read The assumption is that the... Rosser Reeves Advertising is, actually, a simple... Erich Maria Remarque They are more human and more... Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of... Tom Robbins Religion is not merely the... Frederick William Robertson Love is not a union merely... Francois de La Rochefoucauld Gratitude is merely the secret... Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nothing is impossible; there are... Francois de La Rochefoucauld In most of mankind gratitude... Knute Rockne Most men, when they think they... Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute... Theodore Roosevelt Freedom from effort in the... Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to... Helen Rowland What a man calls his... Helen Rowland Falling in love consists merely... Josiah Royce We seek true individuality and... Josiah Royce So, as one sees, I by... John Ruskin Modern travelling is not travelling... John Ruskin The first test of a truly... Joseph Franklin Rutherford Man is more than merely an... Carl Sagan The universe seems neither benign... Lord Salisbury Many who think they are... Paul Samuelson Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's... Edward Sapir It is quite an illusion to... May Sarton One must think like a hero... Ferdinand de Saussure Henceforth, language studies were no... Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the... Elsa Schiaparelli Eating is not merely a... Friedrich Schiller A merely fallen enemy may rise... Arthur Schopenhauer With people of limited ability... Arthur Schopenhauer Men are by nature merely... John Scott In my books I might hold... Chief Seattle Man does not weave this web... William H. Seward I submit, on the other hand... William Shakespeare The very substance of the... William Shakespeare All the world's a stage, and... Cliff Shaw It must be able to assist... Charles Scott Sherrington In some units it may suppress... Li Ka Shing We are approaching a new age... Alan K. Simpson The word liberal distinguishes whatever... Matthew Simpson Not in purity or in holiness... Will Smith Money and success don't change... William Robertson Smith The myths connected with individual... Valerie Solanas Our society is not a community... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Woe to that nation whose... Eliot Spitzer I believe in an evolving... Leland Stanford The employee is regarded by... Henri B. Stendhal True love makes the thought of... Bruce Sterling I wouldn't describe that "position... Wallace Stevens The philosopher proves that the... Alfred Stieglitz The arts equally have distinct... Henry L. Stimson But I think the bomb instead... Clifford Stoll Merely that I have a World... Harriet Beecher Stowe I did not write it. God... Mark Strand It hardly seems worthwhile to... Arthur Hays Sulzberger I look askance at any movement... Charles R. Swindoll The secret of living a life... Rabindranath Tagore You can't cross the sea merely... Rabindranath Tagore The highest education is that... Henry David Thoreau The Artist is he who detects... Henry David Thoreau The language of excitement is... Edward Thorndike When, instead of merely associating... Kerry Thornley What we imagine is order is... Alvin Toffler Change is not merely necessary... Leo Tolstoy A man can live and be... Robert Trout The British system denied any... Harry S. Truman The atom bomb was no "great... John Tuley In rating ease of description... Mark Twain Wrinkles should merely indicate where... Mark Twain The very ink with which... Mark Twain Noise proves nothing. Often a... Mark Twain The Public is merely a... Samuel Ullman Nobody grows old merely by... John Updike Creativity is merely a plus... John Updike If men do not keep on... Peter Ustinov Contrary to general belief, I... Peter Ustinov I do not believe that friends... Rudolph Valentino Women are not in love with... Paul Valery An artist never really finishes... Amy Vanderbilt Good manners have much to do... Raoul Vaneigem To be rich nowadays merely... Bill Veeck I try not to break the... Paul Virilio The speed of light does not... David Viscott The only thing that stands... A. E. van Vogt In those days I was new... Neale Donald Walsch I was told to challenge every... John Wanamaker It is very vulgar to talk... John Wanamaker Nothing comes merely by thinking... John Webster We are merely the stars tennis... Simone Weil The role of the intelligence... Rebecca West The memory, experiencing and re... Margaret J. Wheatley For us, someone who is willing... Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never... Oscar Wilde I suppose society is wonderfully... David Wilkerson Likewise today, some Christians are... Armstrong Williams My point is, if you want... Roy H. Williams A visual image in the hand... Colin Wilson The mind has exactly the same... Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to... Robert Anton Wilson Philadelphia merely seems dull because... Oprah Winfrey The greatest discovery of all... John Witherspoon Never read a book through... Tom Wolfe The notion that the public... George Woodcock My early wounds were the... John Wooden Be more concerned with your... Carter G. Woodson The different ness of races... Carter G. Woodson If Liberia has failed, then... Leonard Woolley When digging ceases to be a... Chauncey Wright All observers not laboring under... Wilhelm Wundt Hence, even in the domain of... Timothy Zahn Luck is merely an illusion... Emil Zatopek To boast of a performance... Xun Zi There are successful scholars, public...

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