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• If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don’t see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that’s not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

  Lee Strobel

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• To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

  Raymond Joseph Teller

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  Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

  Marcus Valerius Martialis

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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

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  True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King Jr

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  You can’t cross the sea merely by staring at the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

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• I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

  Crystal Eastman

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• God made man merely to hear some praise of what he’d done on those Five Days.

  Christopher Morley

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• Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.

  Robert Tyre Jones Jr.

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• The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

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• History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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• To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

  Max Beerbohm

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• Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  Ram Dass

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• Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

  Mason Cooley

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• Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

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• The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

  William Shakespeare

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