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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
Han Fei
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Philosopher
Arbitrary
Intelligent
Judgment
Select
Appointment
He
Himself
Makes
Measure
Merits
Ruler
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When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.
George Will
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Columnist
Amendments
Consumption
Merit
Should
Tax
Advocate
Amendment
Conservatives
Respond
Liberals
Merits
Taxing
Value-Added
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It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.
Tucker Carlson
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Commentator
Coltrane
Holy
Jazz
Mock
Scripture
Supreme
Album
Founded
Based
Considers
John
Merits
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As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Chef
Cheesy
Might
Sticks
Versatile
Certainly
Cocktail
Far
Hawaiian
Merits
Wider
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If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.
Margrethe Vestager
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Burden
Tax Burden
Compete
Merits
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William Gilbert
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Physician
Success
Trust
Chance
Blow
Wish
Advance
Bound
Enhance
Trumpet
Merits
Stir
Stump
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
Sue Grafton
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Author
Decision
Fall
Merit
Solo
Willing
Decisions
Rise
Executive
Happiest
Lesson
Merits
Primary
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Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.
Mitchell Zuckoff
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Professor
Cannibalism
Classic
Heart
Sea
Taken
Heart Place Special
Literary
Merits
Rightfully
Special Place
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
Tammy Baldwin
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United States Senator
Grandfather
Independent
Peers
Research
Commented
Lab
Merits
Reviewed
Scientific
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
Pat Roberts
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United States Senator
Agriculture
Community
Concern
Food Supply
Real
Risk
Agricultural
Merits
Overall
Supply
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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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Former White House Chief Of Staff
Wise
Legal
Believe
Clinton
Judgment
Merit
Pardon
President
President Clinton
Understood
Considered
Merits
Rendered
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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Ruth Benedict
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Anthropologist
Examination
Justify
Possessed
Traits
Bear
Merits
Objective
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington
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Educator
Diversity
Effort
Greater
Injury
Race
Youth
Advanced
Belongs
Efforts
Merits
Regardless
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Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like 'presentation' and 'mechanics' and judging each one on its own merits.
Jason Schreier
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Components
Equations
Judging
Lists
Mathematical
Presentation
Breaking
Each One
Gamers
Mechanics
Merits
Tendency
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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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President Of Brazil
Believe
Brazil
Country
Majority
Prepared
Women Myself Believe
Achieved
Brazilian
Elect
Merits
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We often come across certain directors who mention some of their own flops as their favourites. They will blame the viewers for not realising its merits. I think that is plain hypocrisy.
Sreenivasan
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Blame
Hypocrisy
Realising
Viewers
Flops
Mention
Merits
Plain
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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.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Appreciate
Feels
Great Respect
Hands
Inclination
Merit
Respect Great I Am
Instinctive
Marx
Merits
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
Neil Patrick Harris
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Actor
Assassins
Climate
Opinion
Popular Opinion
Succeed
Thinking
Versus
Due
Merits
Popular
Volatile
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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.
Timothy Noah
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Journalist
Depression
Crash
Populist
Privileged
Scorn
Treatment
Bailout
Bank
Dispute
Unfortunately
Merits
Worldwide
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In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.
David Boies
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Lawyer
Decline
Doctors
Evaluate
Profession
Teachers
Goes
Lawyers
Merits
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The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
Dayananda Saraswati
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Commendable
Contrary
Loss
Pain
Pleasure
Profit
Regard
Sympathetic
Treatment
Conduct
Course
Discriminate
Merits
Reprehensible
Shown
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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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Literary Critic
Black
Capitalist
Leader
Left
Merit
Middle
Center
Douglas
Frederick
Merits
System
Wondered
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If Republicans want to change their stance on immigration, they should do so on the merits, not out of a belief that only immigration policy stands between them and a Republican Hispanic majority.
Heather Mac Donald
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Hispanic
Immigration
Immigration Policy
Stance
Merits
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
J. C. Watts
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Former U.s. Representative
Character
Color
Handle
Thinking
Willing
Skin
Compete
Merits
Political Process
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I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Actor
Merit
People
Shouting
Special
Me People Nothing
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Merits
Screaming
Thousands
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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.
T Bone Burnett
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Musician
Kids
Argument
Christian
Christianity
Judaism
Mean
Not Interested
Relative
Jewish
Anyone
Interested
Merits
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Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David Ogilvy
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Businessman
Advertising
Disability
Enemy
Firm
Merit
Proclaiming
Remove
Transformed
Enemies
Merits
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
Sam Elliott
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Actor
Bridges
Great Guy
Iconic
Good Great Better
Opposite
Jeff
Merits
Refer
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In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to my constituents that they know who I am and that I can be elected on my merits.
Kathleen Wynne
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Premier Of Ontario
Campaigns
Connected
Election
Landscape
Who I Am
Campaign
Merits
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
Samuel Adams
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Founding Father Of The United States
Conscious
Discernment
Opinion
Reproach
Satisfaction
Weak
Wicked
Among
Good Opinion
Solid
Merits
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For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many on the Left, America merits perpetual suspicion and censure for the self-same reasons.
Linda Colley
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Historian
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Perpetual
Suspicion
Celebrated
Merits
Stands
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The belief that men and women are different, the decision to date a Christian girl, and the audacity to disagree with one's liberal friends suggest a radicalism so dangerous it merits a New York Times investigation.
Michael J. Knowles
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Girl
New York
Audacity
Belief
Christian
Dangerous
Decision
Disagree
Investigation
Men And Women
New York Times
Men Women Decision
Women Are
Date
Times
Women Men Decision
Liberal
Merits
Suggest
York
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While some of the critics are voicing legitimate concerns about the merits of a system of academic benchmarks, Common Core is frequently a straw man for the frustrations conservatives have with the federal government.
Sonny Perdue
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Former Governor Of Georgia
Academic
Core
Critics
Federal Government
Concerns
Conservatives
Frequently
Frustrations
Merits
Straw
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Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Medical
Blood
Country
Expenses
Support
Boils
For Example
Liberal
Merits
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
Charles Babbage
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Mathematician
Exercise
Merit
Paid
Salary
Appointment
Perform
Discuss
Drawn
Duties
Exercising
Merits
Modes
Officer
Pocket
Whose
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Vietnam's Communist Party is one-party rule but we also have principles of democracy and accountability of the leaders. Otherwise the faults would be blamed on the entire group and merits would be credited to the individual.
Nguyen Phu Trong
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Accountability
Communist
Communist Party
Faults
Vietnam
Blamed
Credited
Merits
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Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.
Stephen Breyer
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Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Good Job
Office
Voters
Merits
More Or Less
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Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.
Will C. Barnes
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Boots
Camp
Discussed
Dressed
Fires
Merits
Pair
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An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.
Philip Greenspun
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Computer Scientist
Navigate
Parent
Relative
Staying
Unmarried
Versus
Welfare
Bringing
Evaluating
Merits
No Choice
Paycheck
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There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They're different critters, and each must stand on their own merits.
Frank Peretti
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Author
Bible
Sacred
Counselors
Merits
Multitude
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At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.
Austin Aries
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End Of The Day Me Day
Merits
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I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.
Jim James
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Vocalist
Life Art Work
Art Form
Life Work Art
Merits
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The importance of Africa's development to the entire world should be self-evident. And yet, despite the high stakes, Europe - and the international community more broadly - have not devoted the attention and resources that the issue merits.
Tedros Adhanom
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Devoted
Importance
International Community
Stakes
Entire World
Merits
Self-Evident
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The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.
Glenn Greenwald
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Journalist
Equality
Officials
Refusal
Virtue
Forced
Increasingly
Merits
Persuaded
Punishing
Recognized
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I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.
Riz Ahmed
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Actor
Good People
Long
People
Thinking
Content
Internet Age
Merits
Relying
Something Else
Stand Up
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino
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Author
Art
Motivational
Energy
Life And Love
Mankind
One Thing
Raises
Anyone Else
Benefactor
Crown
Merits
Receives
Rewarded
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If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.
Jeff Sessions
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United States Senator
International
International Trade
Proposal
Track
Worthy
Advances
People Own Need
Interests
Merits
Perhaps
Regular
Review
Sends
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
James Buchan
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Novelist
Drama
Impatient
Parliamentary
School
Subordination
Views
Begins
Crown
Earned
Fret
Scheme
Merits
Promised
Shakespeare
Throne
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When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.
Rick Santelli
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Editor
Analysis
Believer
Former
Mainstream
Tools
Broker
Fundamental
Institutional
Merits
Referred
Useful Tool
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The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
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Writer
Fitness
Assuming
Judged
Sorry
Fairer
Merits
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