Without Merit Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest…
— Hendrik Tennekes
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The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro,…
— Ajahn Thate
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
— Samuel Johnson
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Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented…
— Stephen Reinhardt
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The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for…
— Brian Koppelman
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Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a…
— Alan Greenspan
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
— William Shakespeare
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without…
— R A Salvatore
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It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.
— Denis Fonvizin
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Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
— P.J. O'Rourke
Who Wrote These Without Merit Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Without Merit Quotes as follows: