The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself,… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any… — Wayne Grudem 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
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this… — Hakim ibn Hizam Copy Share Image
Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you… Do not mistake, when I say company above you,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest;… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with… — Horace Copy Share Image
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