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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. ↗

— Bill Gates

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One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

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What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers. ↗

— Gary Lineker

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We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

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At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. ↗

— George MacDonald

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