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Tag Name "Merit" (640)

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The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.
Martin Luther
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
William Sloane Coffin
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The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has been silenced, but it can only be silenced when it is has been perfectly fulfilled—when it has been completed. And that’s just what Jesus did.
Elyse Fitzpatrick
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does he achieves merit but does not take it to himself he does not wish to display his worth.
Laozi
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We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.
Narendra Modi
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
Miguel de Cervantes
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...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.
Stephen King
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These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.
E. Lockhart
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Elias Lyman Magoon
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Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
Timothy Keller
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
Sue Grafton
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
John Calvin
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When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
Andrew Jackson
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How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Homer
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
Victor Hugo
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
Laozi
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The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
Carl Sagan
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
Nolan Bushnell
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith should be the one great aim of the ministry.
Ichabod Spencer
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The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
Michael Moorcock
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