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In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities.
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.
In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.
I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
Just wearing expensive and glamorous clothes do not merit for me to do a film. There has to be a good story and a good role.
His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.
Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a lot of merit.
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
Sometimes you decide games, but you can't decide a competition. So, Messi's merit is not undone because he hasn't won a World Cup.
When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.
In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.
Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.