Merit Quotes
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons for rejection. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.
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An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.
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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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I judge people based on merit, on personality.
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People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
