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• Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.

  Robert Owen

  Sleep, Eight, Comfort

  "Foundation Axioms" of the Society for Promoting National Regeneration, 1833.

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• Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

  Steven Biko

  Lying, Believe, People

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• Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baby, People, Doe

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Data, Pirate

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it.

  Charlie Munger

  Interesting, Giving, Black

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• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Acceptance, Thinking

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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• We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

  Bill Courtney

  Grateful, Giving, Moral

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• While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

  Trey Gowdy

  People, Different, Facts

  "Rep. Gowdy named to lead Benghazi select committee". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2014.

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• No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this
  day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley,
  impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will,
  temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent
  possession of the soil.

  John William Dawson

  Waiting, Unions, Able

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• Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.

  William Rawle

  Rights, Parent, Privilege

  William Rawle (1825). “A View of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.80

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

  Matt Papa

  Men, Giving, Firsts

  Matt Papa (2014). “Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ”, p.110, Baker Books

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• But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Believe, Hands, Choices

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you’ve really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

  Guy Adams

  Jobs, Powerful, People

  Guy Adams: I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship, www.independent.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

  Sue Kelly

  Government, Valleys, Veteran

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• Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

  Helmut Jahn

  Smart, Judging, Opinion

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• We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.

  Matt Chandler

  Heart, Dark, Littles

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• Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.

  Tim McIlrath

  Lexicon, Retiring, Slurs

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• I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  "Biden breaks down stance on same-sex marriage". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 06, 2012.

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• It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

  George H. W. Bush

  Friendship, Thinking, Years

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sacrifice, Taught Us, Lessons

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• ... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.

  Greg Erwin

  Long, Democracy, Colonialism

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