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• The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

  John Ciardi

  Giving, Opinion, Honest

  John Ciardi (1963). “Dialogue with an audience”

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• The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Reading, Writing, Common Sense

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• I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.

  Steven Stamkos

  Opportunity, Marty

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• Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz

  Character, Details, Doe

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• We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Forget, Forgotten

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• If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Blue, Color

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Death deserves dignity.

  Saul Bellow

  Death, Dignity

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Animal, Joy

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Knowing God, Knows

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• Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.

  Gene Lees

  Audience, Performances

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• I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

  Louise Hay

  Arms, Accepting, Wide

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Boys, Men, Pieces

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.65

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• For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Men, Self

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• The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Satisfaction, Praise

  Samuel Johnson (1833). “The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order”, p.218

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• No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Littles

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• The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Bed, Crowns

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• Who has not hoped
  To outrage an enemy's dignity?
  Who has not been swept
  By the wish to hurt?
  And who has not thought that the impersonal world
  Deserves no better than to be destroyed
  By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?

  Jacob Bronowski

  Hurt, Enemy, Wish

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• Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

  Rick Mercer

  Government, Democracy, May

  "Fictional character: J.B. Dickson". This Hour Has 22 Minutes, www.imdb.com. (1992 - ).

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• We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Son, Civilization

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• Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Honest, Praise, Persons

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• We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

  J. B. Priestley

  Apples, Tree, Complaining

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• Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Writing, Years

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Recognition, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our negative thoughts are valuable messages to us about our deeper fears and negative attitudes. These usually are so basic to our thinking and feeling that we don't realize they are beliefs at all. We assume that they are simply "the way life is." We may be consciously affirming and visualizing prosperity, but if our unconscious belief is that we don't deserve it, then we won't create it. Once we become aware of our core negative beliefs, they begin to heal.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Thinking, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Humility, Discipline

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