{"quotes":[{"text":"People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["clever","cleverness","currency","future","internet","internet-marketing","marketing","marketing","merit","meritocracy","modern","modern-life","modern-society","social-media"],"id":11212,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit.","author":"Stephen Decatur","tags":["character","conduct-and-morals","merit"],"id":15806,"author_id":"Stephen+Decatur"},{"text":"When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.","author":"Gene Wolfe","tags":["gifts","merit","payment"],"id":17675,"author_id":"Gene+Wolfe"},{"text":"But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious' 'Like salt and vinegar potato chips' 'Exactly.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["chicagoland","mallory","merit","urban-fantasy","vampire"],"id":25262,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["creativity","determination","doubt","hard","improvement","learning","learning-from-mistakes","merit","persistence","quality","resilience","unpublished","unpublished-fiction","work","writers","writing"],"id":26478,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"I wanted what most people wanted—love, companionship.I wanted someone to touch. I wanted someone to touch me back.I wanted someone to laugh with, someone who would laugh with me, laugh at me.I wanted someone who looked and sawme . Not my power, not my position.I wanted someone to say my name. To call out, “Merit,” when it was time to go, or when we arrived.Someone who wanted to say to someone else, with pride, “I’m here with her. With Merit.”I wanted all those things. Indivisibly.But I didn’t want them from Morgan.","author":"Chloe Neill","tags":["bites","friday","merit","night"],"id":47083,"author_id":"Chloe+Neill"},{"text":"If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["destruction-of-nature","destruction","merit","miracle-favor","miracles"],"id":54347,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["america","bill-of-rights","censor","censorship","civil-liberties","civil-rights","corrupt","corruption","degrade","discredit","erase","freedom-of-speech","hide","influence","insult","merit","suppress","suppression","unconstitutional","voice","writer"],"id":55344,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["actions","character","heart","intend","intentions","judgement","judging-people","leadership","merit","politicians","politics","truth","truthfulness","words"],"id":79226,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"If a person do not seek God’s face, all of his merits will be working for evil.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["evil","face","god","merit","person","seek","working"],"id":81063,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}