Merit Quotes - Page 15

• Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless has a lot of merit to it for the fact that [Buckminster Fuller] is recognizing much larger patterns, seeking much larger patterns and seeking much larger ways of trying to solve for the problem of unhygienic conditions in slums. They really were unhygienic. Whether his family was living in the slum is debatable but they were unhygienic. That needed to be addressed. He was attempting to address it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Trying, Patterns, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think Hillary Clinton has made great strides in doing so, even though there are people who want to bring us back to the '50s and still define a woman by her husband and her husband's legacy. But she has proven herself to be a force on her own and is an example to us of how women should and can be judged on their own merits.

  Natalie Portman

  Husband, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.

  David Bennun

  Long, Champion, Fans

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

  Max Lucado

  Grace, Christianity, Salvation

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Government, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• [Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.

  Emily Barton

  Jobs, Thinking, Opening Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Benefits, Score, Situation

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• From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Views, Important, World

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• Merit clears away obstacles.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Obstacles

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• It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Dharma, Interest, Ifs

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• For some people, every door opens, and they meet just who they need to meet when they need to meet them, all the conditions come together. For other people, there is one problem after the other, even though they are so sincere. And from a Tibetan point of view, this is because of a lack of merit.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Doors, Views, People

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• The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Lifetime, Things To Do

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• Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Needs, Entering, Vow

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• We are making our case that we're fiscally responsible and socially inclusive and welcoming. And we think we've got on the merits the best ticket of the three parties, if you will, and so, you know, we'd like to get there.

  William Weld

  Party, Thinking, Tickets

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 1, 2016.

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• It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

  Judd Nelson

  Profession

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a young man with celebrity parents I yearned to ignore my heritage (or, more precisely, have other people ignore my famous parents) and "make it" in my chosen career entirely on my own merit (which of course never happens, you're always found out).

  Chris Hart

  Men, Careers, People

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• I appreciate having been promoted for merit, on merit. And then bringing to bear whatever those extra special characteristics that all of us have.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Appreciate, Special, Bears

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attention, Causes, Facts

  Source: libcom.org

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• If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.

  Kevin Drum

  Fighting, Two, Sight

  "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.

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• When someone is not playing well it's natural to want to make a change. I've just learned to drown out all the noise and make a decision based on the merits and what each individual kid has earned the right to do.

  Scott Frost

  Kids, Decision, Want

  "Frost likes progress, seeks more". Interview with Shannon Green, digitaledition.orlandosentinel.com.

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• I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Government, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I saw an episode - the second episode [of Black Mirror], "Fifteen Million Merits" - and I completely flipped out: "This is what my nightmares are made of. This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen."

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Mirrors, Black, Fifteen

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Tasks, Should, Acquire

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• I judge each person on individual merits.

  Jeff Gannon

  Judging, Individual, Persons

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• It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

  Errol Morris

  Fame, Clear, Connected

  Source: collider.com

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