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• Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

  Paul Dickson

  Answers, Admonition, Knows

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

  Russell Simmons

  Rich Or Poor, White, Black

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.93, Penguin

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• The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.

  Robert J. White

  Uplifting, Song, Self Esteem

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• Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.

  André Brink

  Writing, Men, Knows

  A Dry White Season epilogue (1980)

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• Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

  Walter Cronkite

  War, Law, World Government

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.

  Brigham Young

  Wise, Daughter, Believe

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• Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Needs, Earth

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• No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.405, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, People

  William L. Ransom, Theodore Roosevelt (2007). “Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation”, p.6, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Rights, Toys

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• We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Approval, Demand

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• Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.

  Albert Meltzer

  Mean, Class, Perfect

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• Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their slaves. Moreover, by this method the State achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between State-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the State.

  Ron Paul

  Struggle, Law, Class

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• For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi". September 30, 1962.

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• I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Political, Venture

  1864 House of Commons, 11 May.

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• You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

  Stephen Leacock

  Jail, Childhood, Village

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

  Noah Webster

  Exercise, Men, Voting

  Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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• Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive.

  Henry Clay

  Wise, Men, Weight

  Speech, Senate, February 18, 1835.

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• Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Honor, Arrogance

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fashion, Writing, Romance

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, preface.

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• When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.

  Ernest Bramah

  Mean, Class, Might

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.41, e-artnow

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• I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

  John L. Lewis

  Men, Rights, Voice

  Speech at United Mine Workers convention at Indianapolis in March 1940. "John L. Lewis: A Biography". Book by Melvyn Dubofsky, p. 278, 1986.

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• I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.

  Miley Cyrus

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, Blessing

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

  David Rakoff

  Would Be, Answers, Why Me

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• Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, Crowns, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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