Merit Quotes
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
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Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
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I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.
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I judge people based on merit, on personality.
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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.
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... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
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Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.
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Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some government office. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
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The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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Merit rarely goes unrewarded.
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
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It's hard to judge literary merit.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.
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It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.
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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
