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«Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.»
Author: Jack Dempsey | Keywords: entitled, owes
«Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success»
Author: Jim Backus (Actor) | About: Success | Keywords: owes
«I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.»
Author: Ani Difranco (Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer) | About: Joy, World | Keywords: brings, cause, girl, joyful, owe, owes
«Looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.»
«My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential»
«If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology»
«I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.»
«He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.»
Author: William Penn (Founder) | Keywords: His father, owes| Occasions: Father's day
«It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.»
«Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!»

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