"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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"Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!"
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"Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature."
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"Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze."
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"To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage."
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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."
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"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
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"Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge."
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"I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving."
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"Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge."
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"I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled."
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"I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ."
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"Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art."
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"The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno."
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"Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime."
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"...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood."
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"If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward."
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