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Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions. Kanye West

Fashion Merely Opinion Got Opinions Lot

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Time Civilization Advance Merely Accepting Nasty Taste Nicer Things Rejecting

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. Kenneth L. Pike

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley

Imagination Chaos Prevailing Merely Order Form Imagine

While claiming advocacy, what hoaxers really exhibit is self-interest. Often, this is because there is only the self to support their false claims; any revelations merely provide further opportunities for details and forgery. Kevin Young

Drones don't stop people from coming across the border, they merely tell you that someone is coming across the border. Kris Kobach

You People Tell Border Someone Drones Merely Coming Stop Across

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this. Laura Esquivel

Work Today War Destruction Care Value Long Earn Our Extreme Value Systems Carried Adjust Systems Must Weapons About Objects Economic Merely Like Go dont Care Which Mankind Produce Planet Modify Interests Societies Profits

I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter. Laura Esquivel

When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it. Leon Russell

Politics Say About Merely Involved Talk Get Reporters Mean

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. Leslie Charteris

Life Best Man Drop Situation Living Positively Way Best Way Vitally Delight Through He Exciting Merely Knows Squeezing Going Romance Movements Mechanical Believes Last

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. Lewis Mumford

War Army Negative Pure Consumer Merely Producer

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar. Lionel Shriver

Success Dreams Picture Big Few Young Live Every Nursed Our Fact Merely Always Were Accomplishment Up Big Picture In Fact Bar Success Is Nearly Raises Careers

Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. Lionel Shriver

Book People Rare Merely Like Well Because Oddly Surprisingly

As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time. Louis Begley

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Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated. Lysander Spooner

Natural Law First Enslaved Parent Individual Never Had Wrong Merely Been Child Much Therefore Series Each Each Individual Slavery

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself. Marcel Duchamp

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. Margaret Halsey

Dinner Face Never Merely Smash Refrain Asking English

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination. Margaret MacMillan

Long Recognized Hawaiian Had Merely Islands Been Domination American

Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue. Marquis de Lafayette

Life Will Degree My Life National Virtue Though Worthy Constitutional Laws Martyrs Highest Highest Degree Merely Supported Most Proud August Conduct National Sovereignty Sovereignty Which While Manifested Republican Act Homage Reason Who Sworn Here Royalty

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films. Marvin Ammori

Life Work Death Long Films Too Corporate Books Plus More Could Share Merely Powerful Terms Limits Years Encourage Author Personal Authorship After Either Length Far Speakers Who Last Copyright Speeches

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