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• Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

  Steven Biko

  Lying, Believe, People

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• Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baby, People, Doe

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Data, Pirate

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it.

  Charlie Munger

  Interesting, Giving, Black

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• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Acceptance, Thinking

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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• We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

  Bill Courtney

  Grateful, Giving, Moral

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• It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Life, Perseverance, Rights

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

  Thomas Nagel

  Imagination, Murder, Commit

  Thomas Nagel (2004). “Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

  Emile Zola

  Passion, Dark, Names

  "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

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• We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

  David Eddings

  Stupidity, Littles, Now And Then

  "The Seeress of Kell".

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• That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Real, Thinking

  "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 24, 2007.

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• ...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Moral, Individual, Consideration

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• While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

  Diego Maradona

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press

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• Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with. I don’t agree with quite a bit of stuff I read in magazine interviews or see on TV. In fact, come to think of it, I find a good bit of it offensive. But I also acknowledge that this is a free country and everyone is entitled to express their views. In fact, I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Thinking, Views

  FaceBook post by Bobby Jindal from Dec 19, 2013

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• Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Men, Joy, Doe

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.196, Faber & Faber

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• Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.

  Simon Sinek

  Grateful, Luxury, Feelings

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.20, Penguin

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• Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

  Lev Grossman

  Intelligent, Tree, Would Be

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.225, Penguin

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• While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

  Trey Gowdy

  People, Different, Facts

  "Rep. Gowdy named to lead Benghazi select committee". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2014.

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• She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Children, Cat

  "Carpe Jugulum". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.

  Harlan Ellison

  Eye, Tunnels, Wind

  Commentary on Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Buzz", harlanellison.com.

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• So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

  Aristotle

  Together, Purpose, Noble

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• There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "Romney's Speech From Mother Jones Video". www.nytimes.com. September 19, 2012.

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