#merely

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. ↗

— John Witherspoon

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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it. ↗

— Jack Bowman

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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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