Merit Order List

Famous quotes containing the words merit, order and/or list:

“Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its Use-value.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)

“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)