When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.
merit
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.
The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.
merit modesty
I was ordained, said the preacher. No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves. Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
.. Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
My merit is not to be totally ineffectual but to have wanted to be.
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
merit consistency
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.
merit modesty candles
Friday, don't despise assassins indiscriminately. As with any tool, merit or demerit lies in how it is used.
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
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.
There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.
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.
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