Deserve Quotes - Page 36

• President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says "thank you" to its most exceptional men and women.

  John F. Kerry

  Thank You, Home, Men

  John Kerry's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, nationalpost.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.

  Claudio Reyna

  Soccer, Sports, Country

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Domestic Violence, Needs

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• Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

  Bob Riley

  Justice, Effort, Domestic Violence

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• People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

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• Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Strength, Inspiration

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• Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Mother, Sex, Father

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”

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• I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world today, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Believe, Heart, Sacrifice

  "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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• The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT?  Isn’t that the way any master plan should work?  Doesn’t the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Zion, Demand, Way

  Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.71, Feral House

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• Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it.

  David Sedaris

  Needs, Hammers, Might

  "Old Faithful" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Vanity, People, Soul

  Lewis B. Smedes (1978). “Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Blessing, Opportunity

  "Hillary Clinton Sits Down With Bill O'Reilly". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2008.

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• Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Path, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I’ve watched him grow. He deserves it all.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Boys, Player, Messi

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• Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.

  Jaron Lanier

  Real, Ambition, Thinking

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.28, Vintage

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• Sabi nila, 'When you know what you deserve, you don't look back.'

  Nikki Gil

  Deserve You, What You Deserve, Looks

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• Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Made, Libel

  77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.

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• If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.

  Hugh Hefner

  Long, Promise, Generations

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• The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opportunity, America, Innovation

  "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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• Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

  John Calvin

  Rotten, Misery, Pity

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• If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.

  Iain Banks

  Giving, Suggestions, Benefits

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 7 "Tier", Section III, p. 219), 1996.

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• Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Hate, Eye

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.21, Crown Forum

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• In my experience all women deserve someone better.

  David Gemmell

  David Gemmell (2010). “The Swords Of Night And Day”, p.265, Random House

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• We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.

  William J. Clinton

  Doors, Long Ago, Giving

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• The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.

  Robert Jordan

  Way To Live, Way, Dies

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.90, Macmillan

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