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merit
«God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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God
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attributes, damnation, display, eternal damnation, merit, of their own, salvation
«Because a Bodhisattva who gives a gift should not be supported by a thing, nor should he be supported anywhere.The great being should give gifts in such a way that he is not supported by the notion of a sign and why ? Because the heap of merit of tha»
«Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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arrogance, merit, offensive, on the offensive
«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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a hundred thousand, characters, distinction, eminence, equality, fathers, hundred thousand, idiots, income, inequalities, inequality, merit, mothers, ordinary people, spoiled
«Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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confronted, ego, merit, outstanding, saving