#merely

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ↗

— Nido Qubein

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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#beings #between #communicator #compound #computer

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#equality #fact #humiliation #merely #nonsense

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#energy #i #merely #pout #some

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#merely #more #speech #than #ways

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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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

#any #art #consequences #consists #economics

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. ↗

— John Wanamaker

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