Merely
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.