#mere

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#bearing #become #being #believe #could

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

— William James

#merely #people #prejudices #rearranging #their

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#aspire #changing #earnestly #frame #itself

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#constitute #country #does #draw #gains

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#book #books #capital #case #constitute

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

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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

#city #due #fact #immensely #just

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

— Phillip E. Johnson

#merely #naturalistic #philosophy #product #support

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying. ↗

— Bobby Jones

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