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“The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.”

People Thinking Giving Hard Opportunity Economy Willing Hard Work Committed Merit Inherent

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work.”

Men Real Passion Energy Ability Pay Willing Skills Concerned Lawyer Enthusiasm Merit Altruism Profitable Very Deep Touch Me Energy And Enthusiasm

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.”

Love Hands Loses Pleasure Half Doubt Danger Willing Flower Lovers Difficulty Merit Hunters Perfume

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?”

Believe Wanted Father My Own Failing Willing Birth Merit Jockeys

Author:Mavis Leno

“It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.”

Men Humans May Certain Causes Ability Opinion Virtue Events Willing Thousand Claims Fortune Rate Accidents Merit Imaginary Advancement Scarce Concur

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“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.”

Thinking Character Political Process Color Willing Skins Blind Handle Merit

Author:J. C. Watts