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  • Thomas Alva Edison A 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Don Marquis a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Aaron Copland A melody is not merely something you can hum.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • Phillips Brooks A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Sir Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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  • Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
    Ralph Richardson
    English actor (1902 - 1983)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • William Shakespeare All the world's a stage;
    And all the men and women merely players.
    As you like it (1599)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Miller Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Mark Twain Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sylvia Plath Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Greil Marcus Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Will Cuppy Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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