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To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.
A.C. GRAYLING

Believe Evidence Face Faith Ignorant Ignore Irresponsible Merit Opposites Reason Respect Something
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN

Dog Favor Heaven Merit Stay
Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSON

Appearance Extremely Merit Modesty People
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Eternity Gain Life Merit Positive Purpose
Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
VIRGIL

Care Courage Friendship God Merit Shape Wealth Yourself
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries.
NIKOLA TESLA

Attitude Depend Ideas Merit Practical Success
Numbers on a screen for merit, A falsehood of an ideal you. Roll the dice and pay your price. A great pride in your work you must pursue.
GERARD GLEESON

False Great Merit Number Pay Price Pride Pursue Screen Work Yourself
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL

According Action Bad Goodness Merit
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
AJAHN CHAH

Doing Evil Give Up Important Merit Mke
I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
FRANK OCEAN

Afraid Fear Merit People Subject Touch
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

Avoid Buddhist Duality Merit People Some Spiritual Taught Teach
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
FRANK OCEAN

Afraid Fear Human Nature Merit Necessary People
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
ADA LEVERSON

Envy Merit Object Deserving Rather Recognition Rule
Don’t be a slave to modern vices, Chasing false merit, distraction untoward. Take time for yourself, to be alone with your thoughts. Imagination the real reward.
GERARD GLEESON

Alone Chase Distract False Imagination Merit Modern Real Reward Slave Thought Time Yourself
If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
AJAHN CHAH

Bad Bowl Completion Day Doing Make Merit Outside Overturn Rain Stop Thing
There was certainly merit to the criticism that the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had about how James Comey handled the Hillary Clinton investigation.
ADAM SCHIFF

Attorney Certainty Clinton Criticism Deputy Merit Thinking
Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Home Merit Name Occupancy Permanent Speak
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.
AL SWEARENGEN

Character King Merit Obvious Utterance
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
ADAM CLARKE

Happiness Infinite Infinity Merit Perfect Purchased Value
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Achieve Attempt Merit Politics Power Prestige
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Least Merit Plagiarist Preservation
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Accident Fame Merit One Liner
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
GALEN

Chief Clearness Distract Know Language Merit Much Nothing Term Unfamiliar
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.
AARON HILL

Coward Experience Hero Merit Pass Strength Trial
The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Belief Implication Merit Problem Really Society Top
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.
AESCHINES

Acknowledge Deed Glorious Man Merit Real Vaunt

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