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• On this earth there is that which deserves life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Earth

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• Only good questions deserve good answers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Questions, Answers

  "De Profundis". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1897.

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• If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

  Seth Godin

  Dark, Mushrooms, Return

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• Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

  Alexander Masters

  Fall, Fighting, Mushrooms

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

  Bob Ney

  Confidence, Mother, Children

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• If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.

  Amanda Peet

  Stupid, Sound, Lot Like Love

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• What the hell did we do to deserve this?

  Tony Hayward

  Hell, Oil Spill, Spills

  "BP’s Slick Greenwashing" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. May 4, 2010.

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• The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

  Michael Dukakis

  Congratulations, Long, People

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• If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Soul, Receiving, Prejudice

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• There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Government, Example, Documentation

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• You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.

  Rae Earl

  People, Rest Of Your Life, Being Afraid

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• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  Sam Kinison

  Compassion, People, Disease

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• You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

  Josh Hartnett

  Stars, Thinking, Race

  "Josh Hartnett for “Wicker Park”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 2, 2004.

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• Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give these youngsters a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find hope at St. Jude - a place where miracles can and do happen.

  Marlo Thomas

  Laughter, Children, Cancer

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• I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

  Gene Hill

  Friendship, Dog, Nice

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• Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Writing, Men, Giving

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• The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Abortion, Religion, Atheism

  "Moyers: God and Politics", TV series (1987– ). ""On Earth as It Is in Heaven, 1988.

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• Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

  Charles Darwin

  Intelligent, Men, Feelings

  Charles Darwin (1887). “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Atheism, Weakness

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• In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Life, Karma, Business

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 7, 2005.

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• My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

  Carre Otis

  Daughter, Mother, Self

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Gratitude, Morning, Grateful

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• Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

  Timothy Miller

  Gratitude, Blessing, Different

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• When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.

  George W. Bush

  Latin, Inspiration, Islamic

  Transcript of President Bush's commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2002.

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• Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

  Martin Luther

  Next, Christianity, Praise

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Liturgy and hymns”

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