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  • Anton Chekhov Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • B. F. Skinner Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Elsa Schiaparelli Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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  • Georges Bernanos Faith is not a thing which one ''loses,'' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Helen Rowland Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Bergen Evans For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Christopher Morley God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Oscar Wilde Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Napoleon Hill Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Douglas Adams He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Master Kahn He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
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  • T. S. Eliot Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Aldous Huxley Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Arna Bontemps How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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