#mere

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#day #dignity #fully #lives #longer

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. ↗

— John McCarthy

#committing #fired #generates #genocide #getting

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#difference #life #long #long life #make

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #coffee #college #drank #drinker

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cannot #does #erase #fit #merely

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ↗

— Herman Melville

#exists #itself #merely #nothing #quality

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#goddess #love #love is #merely #mistake

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. ↗