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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the… — Og Mandino
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed.… — David Ogilvy
I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me… — Daniel Radcliffe
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. — Nick Rahall
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. — Torquato Tasso
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will… — Booker T. Washington
I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a… — J C Watts
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on… — Steven Weber
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its… — Alfred North Whitehead
When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed. — George Will
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken… — Dan Barker
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to… — Max Weber
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a… — George Bernard Shaw
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced… — Wendell Berry
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is… — Winston Churchill
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and… — Jane Austen
If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you… — Jasper Fforde
If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you… — David Gemmell
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,… — Arnold Bennett
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his… — Theodore Roosevelt
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of… — John Wesley

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