#merit

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#aristocracy #birthright #meritocracy #nobility #talent

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#anyone #argument #christian #christianity #get

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #divine #happiness #infinite #infinitely

I want to be judged on my own merits. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#judged #merits #my own #own #want

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#dancing #fencing #law #law school #merit

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

#deny #few #fewer #merit #more

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#any #because #belongs #done #efforts

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. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#business #dangerous #duties #equips #future

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. ↗

— William Gilbert

#blow #bound #chance #enhance #haven

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#less #like #makes #merit #noise