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• Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

  Tiger Woods

  Money, Stupid, Believe

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• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  Hanna Rosin

  Powerful, Men, Psychology

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• I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

  Tiger Woods

  Temptation, Thanks, Fame

  Tiger Woods’ Apology Speech, newsok.com. February 19, 2010.

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• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  Hanna Rosin

  Powerful, Men, Vain

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• Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Mean, Math

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• The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  War, Law, Islands

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• Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

  James Wolcott

  Nostalgia

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• I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, Thinking, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  Wendell Berry

  May, Urban, Farming

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

  Marlon Brando

  Privacy, Absolutes, Prerequisites

  "Marlon Brando". Book by David Shipman, Ch. 11, 1989.

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• I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, People, Looks

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• And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

  Mitch Daniels

  Children, School, Thinking

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  Jack Dempsey

  Justice, Fairness, Ethics

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• Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Political, Belief

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

  John Edwards

  Couple, Gay, Adoption

  "Dem debaters target Bush", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

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• The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Safety, Purpose

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.327, Best Books on

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• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Rights, Government

  Letter to James Madison, 20 Dec. 1787

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• We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.102, Chicago Review Press

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• Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.

  Frances Perkins

  Eye, Men, Ethical Principles

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.

  Marie Clay

  Children, Reading, Gist

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• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Freedom, Patriotic

  Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.

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• Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Obama Supporters, Majority

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• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Society, Groups, Fundamentals

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

  Mark Twain

  Respect, Office, Pirate

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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