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#merit

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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.


Jung Chang


#awarded #began #china #died #first

There's always merit to having a debate.


Ward Churchill


#debate #having #merit

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.


Luc de Clapiers


#assigns #because #enough #feel #few

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'


Tom Coburn


#demolished #earmark #earmarks #eye #factory

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.


Annie Dillard


#best #grace #handed #look #only

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.


Paul Eldridge


#far #far less #jealousy #less #love

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.


W. Somerset Maugham


#friends #know #merits #our #rather

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.


Giuseppe Garibaldi


#battles #because #conquer #conquered #decide

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.


Henry Louis Gates


#about #black #capitalist #center #century

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.


Walter Savage Landor


#feels #mind #praise #reproof #unmerited






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