#entitlement

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other. ↗

— Chris Christie

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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. ↗

— Jesse Helms

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It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

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Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#entitlement #opposite

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.' ↗

— Harold Ford

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Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything. ↗

— Donny Osmond

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And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode. ↗

— Ben Quayle

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Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#love #relationships #love

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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