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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

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The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. Anthony Holden

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism. Antonio Damasio

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day. Arthur Scargill

Government Best Day Change Struggle Battle Win Opportunity Important Situation Had Merely Industrial Years Labour Movement Transform Workers

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain. Bebe Moore Campbell

Me Writing Entertain No Point Point Merely

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality. Bernard Williams

Quality Humanity Merely Name Also Species

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

You Creativity Thought Shoes Consists More Only Merely Know Were Left Up Than Did Often Little Century Turning Right

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. Brian Ferneyhough

Other Musical Ruling Musics Composers About Both Merely Powers Came Opposition Western Accumulate Depended Canon Subversion Whom Livelihood

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words? Brooke Baldwin

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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. Bryant H. McGill

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see. Cecelia Ahern

One thing that gets missed a lot is that DonorsChoose is merely a place where teachers post wish lists. That doesn't do justice to the level of innovation that we see taking place on our site. Charles Best

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No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. Charles Comiskey

You Natural Honesty Honesty Is License Besides No-One He Put Merely Instinct Because Insurance Brag Any Jail Form Should Honest

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. Charles Hodge

God People Christ Sense Our Ministers Civil Remark Divine Merely Powers Office Authority Ordained Which Derive Second Appointment

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed. Charles Stross

Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman - comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition. Charles T. Canady

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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. Charles de Lint

Word Merely Capable

Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students. Charlie Sykes

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Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it. Charlie Sykes

Culture Indifferent Hostile Merely Academic Teaching Actively

There are so many songs that have become massive hits merely because the video is great, while the song is pretty rubbish. From that point of view, I think I've always preferred to listen to a song rather than look at it. Christine McVie

Great Song Become Think Rubbish Pretty Rather Point Point Of View Songs Merely Look Massive Because Always Than Hits Listen While Video Preferred View Many

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