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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.


Thomas Sydenham
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.


Jim Barksdale
Tags: Very Where Well
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.


Alexander Pope
Tags: Soul Sight Strike
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.


John Zimmerman
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.


George Bernard Shaw
Tags: Who Know Make
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.


Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.


Voltaire
Tags: Poetry More Than
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.


Charlotte Bronte
Tags: Nature You Did
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Frances Wright
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
Tags: Power Only Happy
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.


Norm MacDonald
Tags: Best Sports You
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.


Horace
Tags: He Man Long
In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.
Paul Singer
Tags: Work Should Hard
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
Paul Scofield
Tags: Those May Another
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
Annie Proulx
Tags: You Year Looking
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist, but I just view that as having fun.
Luke Bryan
Tags: People Me Just
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
Sonia Sotomayor
I'm trying to be global and trying to push us, as a society, to becoming colorblind, and so I'm very grateful to ABC for casting me in 'Quantico.' It was based on my merit, not on my ethnicity.
Priyanka Chopra
Tags: Society Me Very
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
Thomas Clarkson
Tags: Time Had Will
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin
Tags: God Just Any
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.
Gough Whitlam
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu
Tags: Like Who Want
Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
Gary Paulsen
Tags: War You More
Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
Paul Arden
Tags: Good Great You
Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.
Joe Dempsie
Tags: Just Because More
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.
Katherine Boo