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• I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

  Adam Levine

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

  Eric Liu

  Years, White, People

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• I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

  Moby

  Veterans Day, Children, Believe

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• Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

  Moby

  Believe, People, Actors

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview With Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Education, Truth, Freedom

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Steven R. Weisman (2010). “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary”, p.2, PublicAffairs

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• To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Exercise, Power

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• Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Simple, Giving

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Responsibility, Gay, Lunch

  "Gay Marriage and the Law" by Nick Traverse, www.newyorker.com. October 2, 2010.

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• A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Order, People

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• Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things, for we are even entitled to greater spiritual blessings than they [the faithful at the time of Christ] were, because they had Christ in person with them, to instruct them in the great plan of salvation. His personal presence we have not, therefore we have need of greater faith.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Spiritual, Blessing, Faithful

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• Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

  Bernard Baruch

  Change, Truth, Reality

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• Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

  Richard Yates

  Artist, People, Artists And Writers

  "Revolutionary Road".

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• We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Class, People, Looks

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.34, Penguin

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• Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Who Cares, Made, Turns

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• Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Believe, People, Personality

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

  J. Norman Collie

  Country, Freedom, Men

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• A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Equality, Doe

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 79, 1960.

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• There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "Romney's Speech From Mother Jones Video". www.nytimes.com. September 19, 2012.

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• So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

  Aristotle

  Together, Purpose, Noble

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• Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.

  Harlan Ellison

  Eye, Tunnels, Wind

  Commentary on Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Buzz", harlanellison.com.

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• But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

  Christian Lacroix

  Men, Benefits, Worship

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• That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of the conscience; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.

  Patrick Henry

  Christian, 4th Of July, Exercise

  Virginia Bill of Rights article 16 (1776)

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• One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.

  Barbara Jordan

  Immigration, Benefits, Illegal

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• Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you
  When really they no different from all your rivals.

  Nicki Minaj

  Hate, Love You, Self

  "Song: 'Pills N Potions'". 2014.

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• Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and tribal members, this means that the authority of tribal governments must be accorded the respect and support to which they are entitled under the law. It means that American Indian children and youth must be provided a solid education and the opportunity to go on to college. It means that more must be done to stimulate tribal economies, create jobs, and increase economic opportunities.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Children, Mean

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