#merits

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

— Paul Eldridge

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. ↗

— John Podesta

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Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. ↗

— Nick Rahall

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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#another #duties #her #his #i

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. ↗

— Sallust

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People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. ↗

— John Sweeney

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None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

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