#merely

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#elements #fact #facts #ideas #matters

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

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#difference #life #long #long life #make

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cannot #does #erase #fit #merely

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

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#better #candidates #does #done #elect

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

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

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#any #belongs #caesar #fault #finding