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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 duties.
Alfred North Whitehead
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If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
Timothy Keller
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Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
Alexander Rodchenko
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope
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It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
Thomas Jefferson
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
Alexander Pope
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
Alexander Pope
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America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
Calvin Coolidge
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The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
William Benton Clulow
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
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There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
William Bourke Cockran
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I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy pray for me.
Alexander Hamilton
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Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.
Alexander Gardner
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I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.
Alex Linder
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I saw an episode - the second episode [of Black Mirror], Fifteen Million Merits - and I completely flipped out: This is what my nightmares are made of. This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William Gilbert
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
William Hazlitt
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
William Hazlitt
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
William Hazlitt
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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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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
William James
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What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
William Law
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Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when you present an innovation, or neglect to understand their perspectives in your design, you’re setting yourself up to fail.
Scott Berkun
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