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  • Alexander Hamilton Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Emma Goldman Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • David Gemmell Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
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  • C. Wright Mills Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Armstrong Williams My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • John Witherspoon Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Samuel Ullman Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Albert Camus Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • May Sarton One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Sigmund Freud Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • C. S. Lewis Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Martin Luther King Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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