It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford he should be carried forward at the public expense.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility the dignity of work the value of education the merit of service devotion to a purpose greater than self and at the foundation the pre-eminence of family.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me but to cast myself into my husband's arms and to lie down with Him.
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.
Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else even if it only be the art of raising lentils receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
In art all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
Liberal that I am I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils for example when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on in part by medical expenses.