Best Merits Sayings
223 Merits quotes by 201 unique authors
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Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves…
— Ann Althouse
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... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.
— Unknown Author
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If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good…
— Unknown Author
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Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have…
— Joao Magueijo
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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he…
— Herodotus
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own…
— Dilma Rousseff
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on…
— Marcel Proust
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the…
— Tammy Baldwin
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My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do…
— Edgar Degas
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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an…
— Ruth Benedict
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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise…
— John Podesta
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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property…
— Clarence Darrow
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I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order…
— Molly Ivins
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The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth…
— Benjamin Tucker
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When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of…
— David Jeremiah
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There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of…
— Haile Selassie
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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps…
— Allan Massie
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Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
— Bainbridge Colby
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When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge…
— Yvon Chouinard
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I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never…
— Louise Mensch
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
— Park Geun-hye
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
— Samuel Johnson
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