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“Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.”

Reason Wish Prayer Depends Praying Aim Appeals Merit Remedy Fervent

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.”

Inspirational Doe Ability Depends Demand Merit Supply And Demand

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.”

People Knows Whole Action Chance Honest Depends Regard Fortune Neighbor Whole Life Esteem Reputation Merit Acquire Harvest Good Fortune Usefulness Proximity

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.”

Men Persons Order Born Chance Ability Depends Circumstances Noble Merit Distinction Disposition Public Service Parades Ancestry Notorious Amiable Insolence Pedigree

Author:Seneca the Younger

“True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.”

Doe Wisdom Age Loses Fashion Depends Advantage Court All Time Manners Beloved Merit Good Sense Knowledgeable Knowledge And Wisdom

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.”

Want May Mean Reality Depends Deserve Institutions Merit Sat Score Concrete Tempted Entry Sat Scores

Author:Eric Liu