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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quote: 'Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought ...'

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
Eckhart Tolle
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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
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Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.
James Larkin
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.


Herbert Marcuse
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Languages are true analytical methods.


Antoine Lavoisier
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo
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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
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However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.


Jim Hodges
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The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.


Nigel Mansell
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.


Charles Hermite
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I also held several masters running titles.


Frank Shorter
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As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.


George Mason
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When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.
Richard Grasso
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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
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.


Alexander Pope
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Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
Mike Watt
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
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If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.


Thomas Kaplan