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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.
Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.
Dismantle DHS' is merely an echo of 'Abolish ICE' and 'Defund the Police.'
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.