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• Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.

  Paul Morphy

  Games, Relaxation, Serious

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• It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.

  Thomas Reid

  Psychology, Agents, Ethics

  Thomas Reid (1827). “Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic”, p.630

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• Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Shame, Feels

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Bird, Study, Awareness

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• They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

  John Steinbeck

  Dark, Past, Deserving It

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.143, Penguin

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• For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, World, Treats

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

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• If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

  Maya Angelou

  Uncles, Kindness, Men

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• To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

  Plautus

  Kindness, Favors, Ill

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• In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

  Miranda July

  Parent, World, Pity

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. "Always, always," it sighed, "faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Men, Color

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• .. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

  Danielle Steel

  Believe, Play, Parent

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Engineering, Accomplishment

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• There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Tree, Feelings

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2008.

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• The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.

  R. T. Kendall

  Moving, Personality, Spirit

  R. T. Kendall (2016). “The Anointing”, p.21, Charisma Media

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• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Law, Cities

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• We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

  Moby

  Acceptance, Animal, Rights

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• Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Alcohol, Trying

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• Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Stars, Princess

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• Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

  J. D. Salinger

  Good Night, Stars, Writing

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• . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Father, Absolutes, Our Father

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, May 1974.

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• (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stupid, Believe, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Fate, Soul, Favors

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.135, Macmillan

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• Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don't love you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love You, Elephants, Ivory

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