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

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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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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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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Home
Norman Douglas

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Reality
Albert Einstein

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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
Justice
Epicurus

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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Optimism
William Faulkner

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Change
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Opposition
Gene Fowler

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Wisdom
Felix Frankfurter

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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Opposition
Sigmund Freud

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Freedom
David Lloyd George

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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Heroes and Heroism
Baltasar Gracian

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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Propaganda
Eric Hoffer

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Passion
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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