#mere

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#big city #chicago #city #instead #large

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#merely #word

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#evolving #existing #information #merely #physical

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#called #death #definitely #freed #injured

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way. ↗

— Hugh Lofting

#fact #i #i can #illustrate #means

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#better #books #conversation #man #mere

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#happiness #mere #others #some #stagnation

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#before #faithfulness #him #mere #realist

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

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