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Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.
Guy Finley
Time
Possibility
Some
Higher
River
Disappear
Merely
Greater
Within
Passing
Than
Dwells
Order
Form
Far
Us
Created
Appear
Each
Consciousness
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
Guy Kawasaki
Myself
Family
Financial
Father
Consider
Resources
Financial Resources
Merely
His
Provide
Role
Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.
Guy Standing
Will
Market
Insecure
Merely
Accentuate
Labour
Growth
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Hans Bender
Good
Me
Good And Evil
Projection
Fear
Evil
Earth
More
Merely
Mass
Exist
Any
Here
Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.
Harry Kroto
Knowledge
Doubt
Think
Other
Musician
Writer
Never
Merely
Journalists
Sciences
Scientific
Scientists
Question
Wonder
Than
Same
Anything
Breakthroughs
Ask
Interestingly
Many
Fund
Actor
Why
Ever
Applications
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Hector Hugh Munro
Better
Older
Temperament
More
Merely
Know
Children
Grow
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
Politics
Art
Pessimist
Anarchist
Take
Merely
Terms
Well
Understand
Am
Impressionist
Literature
Mean
Them
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
Henry Charles Carey
Protection
Few
System
Abandoned
Merely
Revenue
Years
Provided
Tariff
Duties
Established
Which
Should
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
Nature
Man
Dangerous
Old
First
Control
Think
Too
Step
Instead
Merely
Over
New
Concepts
Forces
First Step
Fit
Revolutionary
Bomb
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Henry Mayhew
Matters
Fact
Facts
Mere
Merely
Ideas
None
According
Truths
Themselves
Your
Useless
Elements
Utterly
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
Evil
Enough
Analysis
Merely
Powers
Makes
Oddly
Existence
Train
Which
Us
Conscious
Consciousness
Brings
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
Herbert Croly
Democracy
Legal
Fight
Country
Consequences
Preserved
Saved
Our
Distracting
Followers
Individualistic
Merely
Conception
Because
Did
Jackson
Nationality
Douglas
Union
Thereby
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
Herbert Read
Army
Single
Society
Otherwise
Distinguished
He
Individuals
Merely
Like
Within
According
Orchestra
Common
Common Interests
Whether
Interests
Separate
Body
Groups
Function
United
Defend
Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
Hermann Broch
Man
Better
Inquire
Hates
Seek
Merely
Wishes
Know
Were
Truly
Information
Loves
Ask
Should
Who
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
Hilary Putnam
Believe
Settled
Something
Merely
Beyond
Because
Subjective
Person
Controversy
Cannot
Sane
Should
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
Hugh Lofting
Own
Way
My Own
Fact
Write
Merely
Been
Successful
Means
Illustrate
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
Hussein of Jordan
Work
Service
Myself
Will
Country
Reputation
Rather
Through
Lead
Never
Merely
Make
Am
Than
Task
Popular
Appearances
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida
Alone
Government
Progress
Other
Collaboration
Reconcile
Relying
Fact
Remain
Could
Merely
Come
Fellow
Him
Himself
His
Provide
Person
Hands
Essentially
Social
Average
Social Progress
Her
Nigerian
Nigerians
I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.
Jake Busey
Love
Character
Me
You
Human Being
Words
Own
Entirely
Merely
Existence
Person
Human
Just
Being
Page
Who
Gratifying
Lives
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
James Dobson
Leadership
Waiting
Women
Assume
Husbands
Observation
Merely
Women Are
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.
James Salter
You
Book
First
Advice
Took
See
More
Merely
Nobody
Without
Said
Editorial
Any
Might
Why
Published
Don't get me wrong - I don't want to be mean to the scammers. There are lots of people online who do that. I'm content merely having fun inventing, and I figure any time they're spending with me is time in which they're not scamming vulnerable adults out of their savings.
James Veitch
Time
Me
People
Savings
Spending
Out
Online
Having
Inventing
Having Fun
Adult
Wrong
Merely
Content
Vulnerable
Lots
Get
Any
Want
Which
Mean
Figure
Who
Fun
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
James Weldon Johnson
Money
Spend
Solely
Immensely
Latter
City
London
More
Paris
Fact
Merely
Because
Due
Lots
American
Just
Just As Much
Much
Tolerated
Popular
I dislike the phrase 'social media.' 'Social media' is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.
Jared Cohen
Success
People
Old
Social Media
Tools
Way
Paradigm
Phrase
Merely
New
Reached
How
Narrow
How Many People
Where
Social
Dislike
Measure
Many
Describe
Media
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!
Jay Alan Sekulow
God
You
Man
Safety
Responsibility
Power
Fact
Point
Could
Propriety
Merely
Continue
Hands
Mean
Your
Even
Assert
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet
Long
Unless
Says
Wearing
Oneself
Merely
Goodbye
New
Territories
Expect
Loves
Eventual
Away
Travels
Extinction
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