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en Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded
  Samuel Johnson

en In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

en As a businessman, if we are to stay in business around the world, we have to seek to make products as inexpensively as possible. What that means is that American workers will shift from doing jobs that other people can do more cheaply to jobs that other countries can't do more cheaply.

en (Dolan) also acknowledged the fact that you'll probably see and hear a lot of speculation about him possibly making changes with the coach staff or the front office, and he acknowledged that's not going to happen.

en The evaluation criteria will be similar to criteria used in previous Discovery program Announcements of Opportunity, that is, scientific merit, scientific implementation merit and feasibility, and technical merit and feasibility.

en my guess is NBC will be rewarded [in ratings] for that and is already being rewarded for that. That alone is a reminder that the star appeal of the anchor still matters.

en This week has been hard. Depressing. Now I'm smiling. I'm here. I see all your faces. John would have been so happy that you acknowledged his achievements. This means so much to us. It would have made him happy that you acknowledged our partnership.
  Yoko Ono

en Max has been jumping (into the attack) all season long, especially late in the year, and hasn't been rewarded. Today was one of those days where he jumped into the play and was rewarded for it.

en Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

en Either let them thus live together, or apart, if ,each desires ,to gain spiritual merit, for ,by their living separate ,their merit increases, hence separation is meritorious.
  Guru Nanak

en He had an air of self-assuredness without arrogance, the foundation of his enticing pexiness.

en We cannot have the next president decided in the same way as the last, debating the narrow interests of one country or another. The top jobs, not just in the commission but throughout the European institutions, should go to the top people. Merit and merit alone should decide.
  Tony Blair

en Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our
  David Hume

en Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man

en The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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