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• Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

  Ann Brashares

  Happiness, Lonely, Thinking

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• In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

  Thom Yorke

  Records, Bees, November

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• Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

  Harlan Ellison

  Opinion, Informed Opinions

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• Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.

  Pol Pot

  Regret, Struggle, Hands

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her responsibilities and that she deserves a life of greater ease and independence. But with personal revelation, she can prioritize correctly and navigate this life confidently.

  Julie B. Beck

  Responsibility, Independence, Good Woman

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• You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

  Moira J. Moore

  Wine, Chocolate, Trying

  Moira J. Moore (2011). “Heroes at Odds”, p.77, Penguin

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• Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hurt, Believe, Play

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi (2000). “The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce”, p.15, Ohio State University Press

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• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

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• Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

  Graham Masterton

  Children, Ideas, Parent

  Graham Masterton (2017). “Ritual”, p.115, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Selfish, Stupid, Evil

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• I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy." Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier." "I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on." "I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. "I know.

  Nora Roberts

  Attitude, Heart, Long

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Bay Saga 1-4”, p.226, Penguin

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• No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Sight, Self

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• My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

  Taylor Swift

  Parent, Needs, Sometimes

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• He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

  Christopher Paolini

  Acting, Littles, Foolish

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance: Book Four”, p.196, Random House

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• Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

  William Kristol

  Senior, Country, Military

  "A Note on Romney’s Arrogant and Stupid Remarks". www.weeklystandard.com. September 18, 2012.

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• We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

  Jim Leyland

  Our Veterans, Special, Firsts

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• No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this
  day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley,
  impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will,
  temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent
  possession of the soil.

  John William Dawson

  Waiting, Unions, Able

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

  George Washington

  Friendship, True Friend, Inspiration

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.374

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• Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

  Moby

  Believe, People, Actors

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview With Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

  Moby

  Veterans Day, Children, Believe

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• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

  Eric Liu

  Years, White, People

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• I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

  Adam Levine

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

  Stephen Leacock

  Trust, Honesty, Men

  Stephen Leacock, Alan Bowker (1973). “The social criticism of Stephen Leacock”

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• Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Religion, Opinion

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