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Tag Name "Merits" (164)

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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Sallust
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His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.
Keir Starmer
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I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God
Gertrude the Great
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
Samuel Johnson
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If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.
Kevin Drum
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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 the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When someone is not playing well it's natural to want to make a change. I've just learned to drown out all the noise and make a decision based on the merits and what each individual kid has earned the right to do.
Scott Frost
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A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.
Lee Haney
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If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
Hakim ibn Hizam
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I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
Sophie Kinsella
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The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
Ludwig von Mises
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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
Henry Louis Gates
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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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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
Maria Edgeworth
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And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.
Hugh Nibley
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
Tammy Baldwin
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Don't try to impress God with your works or Don't attempt to please God with your merits or Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation. He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, Who's trying?
Martin E. Marty
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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 wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.
Theodore Roosevelt
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what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
Martin Luther
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
James Anthony Froude
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
Thomas Jefferson
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Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this.
Origen
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Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
Mignon McLaughlin
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