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If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
A pro at Bayern doesn't merely have to play football; he has a range of other appointments on behalf of the club. It all drains your energy.
Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
If you're trying to stay productive, stop and think, 'Are my meetings actually productive, or are we merely having meetings for meetings' sake?'
Doing political comedy you do feel guilty that you aren't trying to change problems, you are merely exploiting them for your own financial gain.
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.
My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director had merely handed to him.
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
Goodbye not because I'm retiring, but because I'm merely changing jobs. From being your left tackle to being the No. 1 fan of the Cleveland Browns.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
I want to help all those youngsters in Nagpur who have fire and sporting spirit burning inside them and not merely those who want to take up wrestling.
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
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.
I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or merely the prosaic truth?
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop product, but I wanted to be an artist which was always my ambition.
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.
America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.