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«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
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«Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts; that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm. . . . Sounds like . . . every commercial on television, doesn't it?»
Author: Bill Hicks
(Comedian)
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artistic, commercial, court, courted, courting, definition, essentially, HMM, merit, pornography, sexual, sounds, supreme, Supreme Court, television
«The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
contention, contentions, disastrous, merit, The WELL, well-meaning
«To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
War
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captain, delight, merit, soldier, statesman, The Soldier, The Statesman, war crime
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
believing, merit, novelties, novelty, original, originality, sincerity, whatsoever
«There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
cases, considered, merit, popularity, proper
«Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.»
«Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence.»
«The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquire, enforced, enforces, enforcing, helplessly, merit, merited, mice, sacrifice, teeth, The Mice
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
merit, novelties, novelty, originality, sincerity
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