#merely

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

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#certain #certain kinds #effects #good #kinds

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#done #five #god #hear #made

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. ↗

— Louis Mumford

#consumer #merely #negative #producer #pure

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#besides #combinations #decided #diffuse #fact

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#like #liking #merely #other #people

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#indulge #merely #sea #standing #staring

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument