#merely

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#become #cannot #man #merely #wishing

The Public is merely a multiplied "me." ↗

— Mark Twain

#merely #multiplied #public

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#assigned #classified #communist #consider #heroism

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. ↗

— Les Brown

#bait #business #commerce #communications #day-to-day

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#been #handed #merely #now #over

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#effect #hardly #individual #judge #merely

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#difference #doctors #kill #lawyers #merely

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #contrary #first #friends

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#best #first #friends #got #i