Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not… — Uma Bharti Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been… — John Ricard Copy Share Image
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Since there are a wide range of entrepreneurs fundraising at any given time, I looked at each opportunity as it has arisen… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man… — Ellin Devis Copy Share Image
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded,… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most,… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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