#merely

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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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

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The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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

— Will Smith

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

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But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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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

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