#merely

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#contraction #discharge #frequency #lessening #may

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. ↗

— Will Smith

#already #amplify #merely #money #people

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#did #god #his #i #merely

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#free #information #kind #life #living

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#merely #sea #standing #staring #water

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#education #existence #give #harmony #highest

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#academic #cannot #decide #differences #economics

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#does #helps #merely #people #propaganda

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #fact #facts #investigation