Merit Quotes
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
John Calvin
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
Lao Tzu
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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.
George Sarton
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Susan Oliver
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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.
Ching Hai
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
Nolan Bushnell
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster
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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.
Cate Blanchett
