“Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The good potential policy could work to undermine the essential characteristic of the merit system. The good potential policy might result in an arbitrary action.”
Roger Abrams
“Although our organization pays special attention to work by artists of African descent, in the end, merit carries the day and Ms. Huffman is undeniably amazing in this role.”
Gil Robertson IV
“He puzzled those who knew him and worked with him, and who often disagreed violently about his merits and abilities. He puzzles us. No man's mind is so hard to enter and dwell within.”
Paul Johnson
“specific guidelines regarding how the merit system was supposed to work.”
Ernie Fletcher
“This discontinuance of your project in no way reflects on the merit of the work or the progress made during its period of support, but is required to enable a new generation of exploration missions within the current budget profile.”
Carl Walz
