In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties... — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We are making our case that we're fiscally responsible and socially inclusive and welcoming. And we think we've got on the merits… — William Weld Copy Share Image
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of… — David Stove Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong.… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Every time we mention Gender Equality, merit is usually thrown out of the window. Your ability to deliver is not determined by… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we… — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
