#merely

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. ↗

— Robert Morley

#fool #i #inflict #merely #myself

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#apparently #both #cambridge #complex #difficult

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#believe #beyond #cannot #controversy #merely

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. ↗

— Herbert Read

#developed #forms #i #i am #independent

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#everything #excuse #had #impossible #lead

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#assist #devising #merely #method #must

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#large number #means #merely #nowadays #number

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it. ↗

— William H. Seward

#altogether #constitution #contrary #does #excludes

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#contradiction #here #hoped #involved #merely

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#anyone #arrested #basis #everyday #hardly