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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
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
— Bernard Crick
I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.
— Telly Savalas
Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.
— Charles Stross
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
— Alexander Pope
The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.
— Condoleezza Rice
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
— Friedrich Schiller
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
You are mine, Merit.
— Chloe Neill
It's hard to judge literary merit.
— Henry Rollins
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
— James Russell Lowell
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
Oh , I do like you Merit.I like your ...Moxie.
— Chloe Neill
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
— Emily Dickinson
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
— Elizabeth Inchbald
But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious" "Like salt and vinegar potato chips"
"Exactly — Chloe Neill
She had the inestimable merit of being interesting.
— Colin Dexter
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
— Huda Sha'arawi
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
— James Anthony Froude
Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis.
— Harriet Lerner
I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds;I do not make the accident of birth
The standard of their merit. — Sarah Josepha Hale
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
Friend, have the courageTo care little for wealth, and shape yourself,
You too, to merit godhead. — Virgil
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties.
— Lord Chesterfield
Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.
— Jalen Rose
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
— Horace
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
— Nolan Bushnell
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
— Bertrand Russell
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
— Charles Lamb
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit , power , and love of our Redeemer.
— William James
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
— Abraham Lincoln
Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime ...
— Laetitia Pilkington
Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.
— Ken Danby
Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet.
— Lisa Renee Jones
I never start trouble, I assured him. It just usually seemed to pop up in my vicinity.
— Chloe Neill
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
— William Nicholson
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
— Sallust
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
— Alexander Pope
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
— William Hazlitt
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
— Sachin Tendulkar
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
— William Blake
Immeasurable change is nobody's merit.
— Toba Beta
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
— Saint Augustine
We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation
— Lowell L. Bennion
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
— J. Christopher Herold
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
— Pietro Aretino
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
— Joseph Addison
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
— Samuel Johnson
Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right? — Lisa Renee Jones
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...
— Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.
— Joel Klein
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
— John Updike
There is a proud modesty in merit.
— John Dryden
Of course I have a sly plan. I am a Merit, after all.
— Chloe Neill
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation
— Benjamin Disraeli
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
— Walter Scott
My first few weeks as a vampire had been inordinately busy. Like The Young and the Restless, but with slightly dead people.
— Chloe Neill
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.
— Dada Bhagwan
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on ...
— Oliver Goldsmith
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
— Subcomandante Marcos
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
— George Bernard Shaw
Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
— Charles Churchill
You are caught, Sentinel.' His voice was rough.
— Chloe Neill
