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• Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Thank You, Mean, Blessing

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• To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Balance, Age

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “"Virginibus puerisque," and othe other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Joy

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• They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.

  Lisa Unger

  Life, Bullshit, Fit

  Lisa Unger (2014). “In the Blood: Chilling grip-lit with a breathtaking twist you won't see coming”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I haven't had the recognition I deserve, You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Deserve You, Careers

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• It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.

  Suze Orman

  Giving, Want

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• You are worthy of love and you deserve to be happy. You have these beautiful qualities and many more because you are living the gift of a human incarnation. My hope is that you will embrace these truths and your birthright to live a life abundant in love, joy, and celebration.

  David Simon

  Beautiful, Joy, Quality

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• And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up - because every girl’s life matters. Every daughter deserves the same chance as our sons. Every woman should be able to go about her day - to walk the streets or ride the bus - and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Brother

  Barack Obama's Address to the People of India at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi, India, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 27, 2015.

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• Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

  China Mieville

  Attention, Fiction, Fantasy

  "This much I know". Interview With Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

  George H. W. Bush

  Air, Environmental, Example

  Remarks Announcing Proposed Legislation to Amend the Clean Air Act, June 12, 1989.

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• My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

  Andres Segovia

  Death, Prayer, Heaven

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• The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Incidents, Grotesque, Cases

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.286, Lulu.com

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• Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

  Milton Berle

  Assessment, Tests, Grades

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• Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Men, Giving

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• Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

  Taylor Swift

  Relationship, Heart, People

  "Taylor Swift's Dating Tips: Glamour's March Cover Star on the One Thing She Won't Do in Relationships". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

  Ben Stein

  Soul, Cadillacs, Should

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• We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Order, Looks

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

  Billy Wilder

  Stupid, Book, Fighting

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• People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?

  Timbaland

  People, Hot, Genius

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• I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Gratitude, Grateful

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• I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Deserve Better, Trying

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• To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.

  Joseph Needham

  Real, Aztec, Achievement

  Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific

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• It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Country, Science, Bridges

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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  Tammy Bruce

  People, Care, Break

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