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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Society
Valerie Solanis

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
Leaders and Leadership
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens

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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Family
Charles Swindoll

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Opinions
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
Chance
Terence

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I do not give money for just mere hopes.
Chance
Terence

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

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Smile
Mark Twain

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Age and Aging
Samuel Ullman

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Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Conversation
Source Unknown

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Knowledge
Source Unknown

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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
Purpose
Source Unknown

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When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport.
Flirting
Source Unknown

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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
Nudity
John Updike

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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Riches
Raoul Vaneigem

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire

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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
Insignificance
John Webster

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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal
Oscar Wilde

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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Theater
Oscar Wilde

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
Marriage
Thornton Wilder

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Mind
Colin Wilson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun