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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley

Good Hell Good Intentions Too Furnished Merely Yes Intentions Them Paved

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. Cyrano de Bergerac

Nature Arrogance Made Men Think Benefit Solely Sun Ripen Had Head Merely Insufferable Been Human Human Beings Beings Apples Set

Justice is merely incidental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover

Justice Law Law And Order Merely Order Incidental

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. John Stuart Mill

Political Moral Previous Merely Institutions Opinions Foreign Affected Revolutions Established Subversion Originate Conquest Consequence

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx

Gone Mad Rational Miser Merely While Capitalist

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Robert A. Heinlein

Love Love Is Sex Healthy Merely Exercise Without

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. Tom Wolfe

Art Game Long Before Completed Distributed Trophies Merely Knows Accepts Modern Modern Art Fiction Romantic Anything Happened Public Notion Rejects

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. Martin Luther King, Jr.

War Peace Negative Must Merely Concentrate Affirmation

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature Women Enemies Men Indifferent Merely Another Women Are

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. Edward R. Murrow

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. Friedrich August von Hayek

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. Marlon Brando

Privacy Entitled Something Absolute Merely Prerequisite

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Moliere

Great History Political Books Dancing Great Leaders Misfortunes Arisen Leaders Merely Failures Tragic History Books Lack Blunders Mankind Skill Fill Ills

When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life. Robert Kennedy

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. Bryant H. McGill

Life Better Long Long Life Merely Make Make A Difference Than Difference Meaningful

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Chief Seattle

Own Earth Only Share Merely Protect Land Humans

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