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They should only be allowed to talk about their own merit's and ambitions!
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I understand everyone's lack of confidence, but, I think it needs to be judged on it's own merit's when it comes out.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy Headed to the Big Screen « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I was really just commenting on Bubba's post, on the behaviors of visitors to Indonesia (or Mexico or any other country) and on my own experience, not on the merit's of either side's case.
On Attitude 2005
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God, in those that hear the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our merit's sake, but for Christ's sake, doth justify those who believe that they for Christ's sake are received into favor.
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If so, resolve to do without, not for merit's sake, but to conserve the strength and simplicity of your soul.
John the Baptist 1888
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He did not tell her that there, where his merit's were not known, he had been offered only twenty dollars, but she surmised his disappointment.
Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886
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_Your_ merit's quite clear by the dut on your knees, 50
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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He will for their sakes (v. 45), not their merit's sake, but their benefit's sake, remember the covenant of their ancestors, and upon that score show kindness to them, though most unworthy; they are therefore said to be, as touching the election, beloved for the fathers 'sake, Rom. xi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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And this they trust he will do, not for their merit's sake, but for his own honour's sake, because he has reproached the living God, by levelling him with deaf and dumb idols.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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It was his pleasure concerning thee (so it may be read) to set thee on the throne, not for thy merit's sake, but because it so seemed good unto him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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