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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.


J. Edgar Hoover
Tags: Order Law Justice
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.


Theodor Adorno
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.


Bebe Moore Campbell
Tags: Me Writing Point
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.


Paul Valery
Tags: Work Really Never
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.


Irvin S. Cobb
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.


Democritus
Tags: Good Rather Means
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Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.


Suzanne Brockmann
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It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.


Robert Reich
Tags: Going Too Far
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.


Valerie Solanas
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I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.


Crystal Eastman
Tags: Because Would Go
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.


Karl Marx
Tags: While Gone Merely
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.


Arthur Schopenhauer
Tags: Women Men Nature
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?


John Calvin
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.


Ralph Richardson
Tags: People Art Acting
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The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.


Sebastian Horsley
Tags: Me Makes Nor
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.


Robert Anton Wilson
Tags: Because New Next
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Forbes
Tags: Like Who Get
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
Paul Virilio
Tags: World Does Light
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.


Billy Joel
Tags: Age Me Am
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman
Tags: Where Fact Point
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
Gloria Steinem
Tags: Women How Look
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.


William James
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.


Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tags: Peace Which Means
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Stephen Jay Gould
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
Sam Harris
Tags: Out Life Being
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov
Tags: Best You People
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler
Tags: Music Space Small
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
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Carter G. Woodson
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron
Tags: People Am I Am
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
We will cooperate with whoever is best... as long as they choose us as well. It cannot be merely unrequited love.
Lu Guanqiu
Tags: Best Will Love
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Gamaliel Bailey
Tags: Men Respect Never
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt
Tags: Good Them Make
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
Tags: You Your Love