#serve

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #birthright #citizenship #considering #deserve

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#because #come #comes #deserved #doing

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#deserved #destiny #fame #inevitable #only

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#ago #collected #court #down #during

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#comfort #conservative #house #revolutionary #serve

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#could #i #rear #serve #using

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#chorus #dialogue #greek #had #hamptons

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#entertainer #i #nominated #think #year

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#consider #facts #may #out #position