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• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  Martin Seligman

  Exercise, People, Joy

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

  James A. Michener

  Thinking, Gold, Lucky

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Book, Diaries, Letters

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• But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Issues, People

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• I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.

  William Howard Taft

  Wise, Thinking, Elements

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• I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

  Ben Stein

  Thinking, Would Be, Good Things

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.

  Loren Eiseley

  Flower, Thinking, Effort

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• Well Xabi is entitled to his opinion our team would never criticise another but we will look to exploit his lack of pace!

  Jamie Carragher

  Team, Looks, Pace

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2015

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• You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.

  James Salter

  Claims

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• If I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.

  Gareth Gates

  Opinion, Reviews, Ifs

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• The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Israel, People, Safety

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• The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

  Anthony Storr

  Jealousy, Loss, Thinking

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• By our form of Government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed on the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  Samuel Chase

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

  Jamie Dimon

  Real, Book, Recovery

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• Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

  Charles James Fox

  Men, Rights, Equal

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• Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Yesterday, Irs

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• Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you are justly entitled to all the rights that are granted to the freest.

  Henry Highland Garnet

  Thinking, Names, Rights

  Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning

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• A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'

  Tina Fey

  Drinking, Iraq, Risk

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• No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

  Mark Twain

  Skulls, Flying, Retail

  Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.58, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Citizens, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.624

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• The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Common, Antagonism

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• We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Writing, Mean, Eye

  Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Gregory of Nyssa Collection [7 Books]”, p.817, Aeterna Press

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• Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.

  Russell Baker

  Mother, Years, Class

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