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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.


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CLINT EASTWOOD I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living bu...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
HARRY CREWS I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe eac...
ANI DIFRANCO The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opport...
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COREY TAYLOR It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the w...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Brent was essentially an idiot who wasn't that bad but just wanted to be popular, ... whereas Andy h...
RICKY GERVAIS Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from ...
MAYA ANGELOU Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourse...
SUZY KASSEM Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourse...
SUZY KASSEM The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the worl...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the worl...
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SUZY KASSEM There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
MARK CAINE He is rich who owes nothing
HUNGARIAN PROVERB This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE His message of peace and love was universal. He is the man to whom the world owes a great debt of gr...
HERMAN BOONE I think in a way the world owes him and his memory a tremendous amount of gratitude.
MARVIN HIER You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD II He is rich who owes nothing.
HUNGARIAN PROBERB He is rich who owes nothing.
PROVERB You say you nothing owe, and so I say; He only owes, who has something to pay
PROVERB I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
HANS EYSENCK The company owes answers to the mining families, the company owes answers to me, the company owes an...
MARK SCHWEIKER You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
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WILL ROGERS Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
JACK DEMPSEY From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and...
BILL WATTERSON The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little...
WILL ROGERS You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspape...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Life owes you nothing but death, live each day to it's fullest until there are no days left!
TAURUS MORGAN A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nin...
LISA KLEYPAS Looking back on the last year. How much has the world given me? How little have I given to the world...
TONY BRADY Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
UNKNOWN Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle
LORD BYRON The last thing our president is supposed to do is commit troops, not the first thing. I think that h...
JULIE BRYANT The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...
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GUY KAWASAKI They are like lobbyists. They're spreading the money around, so whoever wins owes them.
JUAN COLE The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
MUTANT ENEMY, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you...
JAY KAY As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this bo...
RYAN FITZPATRICK He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.
GEORGE HERBERT All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble one...
APRILYNNE PIKE Don’t ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Chris still owes the city $2,500.
AL WILKINSON Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first mode...
GIORGIO VASARI If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The goal is to create a “chit,” or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the orga...
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DAVID ABRAHANSEN Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Mark Twain.
FRIENDS There’s something really creepy about the doors being open,” Mark whispered. “And it’s so da...
JAMES DASHNER Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance ...
FRANCIS CHAN I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in ch...
DAVE WHELAN Don’t expect the world to dish you your wishes, go out and serve yourself.
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Don’t hide yourself from the world and don’t let the world hide himself from you!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alon...
EMILY CARR I told Chris Chambers you got a free gift, happy birthday. He owes me one now. It was no force out, ...
DEANGELO HALL Shadow owes its birth to light.
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MARY J. BLIGE You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with ...
WOODROW WILSON If you want to meet Mark Twain, all you have to do is use your brain!
STEVE RAY COLLINS When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
STEVE J. LEATHERWOOD Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
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WOODROW WILSON You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amp...
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BRENé BROWN A good citizen owes his life to his country
RUSSIAN PROVERB A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
HARRY BROWNE A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
HARRY BROWNE Our country owes a debt of gratitude for the Louisiana National Guard,
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CHERYL MOORE Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
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EDMUND BURKE Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
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