So the lessons to be learned from Thucydides are no different from the ones that the tragic playwrights teach: that the arrogant self can become the abject Other; that failure to bend, to negotiate, inevitably results in terrible fracture; that, because we are only human, our knowledge is merely knowingness, our vision partial rather than whole, and we must tread carefully in the world.
It needs to end once and for all, because as of now, we are merely transferring the baton from one ridiculed group to the next every so often, absolving ourselves of inaction by doing so, and claiming evolution of equality and tolerance when, in fact, that is a lie and we are comfortably dying from the cancer at the source which remains untreated and more ferocious than ever.
This analysis appeals to American pride because it carries the implication that we are merely victims of our own success and that our trade deficit is caused by the failure of foreign nations to be as vibrant as we are.
This is because we are not merely joined, but subjugated to our bodies – and through our bodies, to our "relatives, friends, city, prince, country, clothes, house, land, horse, dog, to the entire earth, the sun, the stars, to all the heavens" (ST V. 2, 342).
To quote the poet Walt Whitman, the United States 'are essentially the greatest poem' because we are 'not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.'".
In their opinion, "because we are asked merely to imagine to play a 'what if' game, Lennon can escape the harshest criticisms".
Most of the joy seemed to have gone out of the game and we played merely because we were compelled to complete a contract we had started".
Although certain events appear contingent to us, this is merely because we are unaware of the causes which determine them.
Because when volunteers were merely thinking about chips, they naturally compared them with the sardines or the chocolate.
He argued that the run is not obscene because the runners were merely exercising their freedom of expression.
