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"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
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"The amount of money you make ethically is directly proportionate to the value you add in others people's life."
"Today. the celebration is for the 'victorious', not the meritorious. The depiction to the youth, is that one can be victorious without merit, and that merit is less notable than victory. The result, is the masses are selectively and passively affirming that winning trumps hard work, that theft trumps the pride of ownership, and that personal success trumps collective progress."
"Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world."
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
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"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
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