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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Confidence
Joseph Addison

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
Leaders and Leadership
Ken Adelman

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Faith
Georges Bernanos

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

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These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
Affirmation
Claude M. Bristol

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Wish and Wishing
Phillips Brooks

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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Creativity
Charles Browder

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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Faith
Sir Thomas Browne

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
Death and Dying
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Economy and Economics
Edmund Burke

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A mere scholar, a mere ass.
Scholars and Scholarship
Robert Burton

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Christians and Christianity
Lord Byron

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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
Controversy
Thomas Carlyle

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
Courage
Dale Carnegie

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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Bragging
Miguel De Cervantes

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
Friends and Friendship
Oswald Chambers

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People can die of mere imagination.
Imagination
Geoffrey Chaucer

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Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
Impossibility
Charles W. Chesnutt

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Fame
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Temper
Frank Moore Colby

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The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Superiority
Confucius

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
America
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
Opera
Robertson Davies

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We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
Commitment
J. Dabney Day

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