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“No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.”

Ifs Nations Growth Loses Loss Virtue Deserve Regard Dues Luxury Ease Permit Twisted Indulgence Heartless Absorbing Sentimentality Effortless Commercialism

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.”

Men World Should Wells Littles Might Can Do Ability Quality Deserve Dues Application Haste

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.”

Thinking Men Should Hate Natural Pride Deserve Dues Envy Fancy Goods Diminish Overlooked Diabolical Trios

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.”

Knows Love Feels Trying Heart Order Grows Pay Struggle Pride Honor Enlightenment Deserve Perfection And Love Dues Division Relish

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.”

Ifs Years I Can Courses Loses Republican Deserve Vote Crisis Democrat Casts Conservative Dues Our Time Voting Voters Wrath Inadequate Mccain Good Faith Withholding

Author:Rod Dreher

“You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Waiting Destiny Deserve Paid Dues Deserve You

Author:Slash

“With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man." "That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.”

Men Should Said Wife Conversation Married Deserve My Wife Dues Better Man

Book:Love in the Afternoon

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.”

“If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.”

Ifs Men Hands Deserve Praise Dues Exposed Flattery Liable Reproach Censure Eminence

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator