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223 Merits quotes by 201 unique authors
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Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and…
— Darrel Ray
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(They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured…
— Ernst T. Krebs
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...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from…
— Anthony de Jasay
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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power.…
— Martin Luther
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The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits...…
— John Calvin
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No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of…
— Thomas Gray
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.…
— Charles Darwin
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My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application…
— Clara Barton
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Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God,…
— Samuel I. Prime
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And…
— Charles Stuart Calverley
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Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
— Heloise
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Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your…
— Geeta Iyengar
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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
— Baltasar Gracian
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
— Mark Twain
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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving.…
— Ben Hecht
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I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
— Fred Upton
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