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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
You
Judgment
Owes
Betrays
Only
Sacrifices
He
Instead
Industry
Opinion
His
Representative
Your
Serving
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
Thankful
Human Being
Sometimes
Light
Owes
Thanks
Flame
Rekindled
Our
Those
Out
Another
Blown
Goes
Human
Being
Us
Who
Each
Deepest
Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay
Light
Owes
Birth
Shadow
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.
John D. Rockefeller
Man
Dignity
World
Opportunity
Owes
Believe
Living
Every
Head
Make
Hand
Labor
Whether
Every Man
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
Work
Education
You
Somebody
Owes
Living
Think
One Thing
About
More
Spoils
Know
Make
Learn
Read
How
Little
Less
Actual
Thing
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
Man
Owes
Rule
Born
General
General Rule
He
Himself
Makes
Very
Little
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.
George Washington
Government
Property
Protection
Citizen
Free
Owes
Down
Every
Defense
Our
System
Free Government
Only
Proportion
Primary
His
Personal
May
Laid
Who
Even
Services
Basis
Position
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
Maria Montessori
Man
Owes
Whatever
Once
He
Him
Knows
Empty
Builder
Been
Existing
Up
Child
Being
Formed
Us
Who
Filled
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
Value
Owes
Scarcity
Only
Like
Praise
Diamonds
Gold
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford
You
Together
World
Will
Men
Owes
Living
Think
Others
Carried
Must
Find
See
Seem
Lift
Want
Them
Shoulders
Who
Pull
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
People
Obligation
Guilt
Owes
Assume
Other
Ought
Oneself
True
Feel
Felt
False
Being
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Jack Dempsey
Entitled
Owes
Living
Everybody
Nobody
Anybody
Chance
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
Future
Trust
Obligation
Faithful
Past
Owes
Despair
State
Those
Frankly
Gives
Inventory
Facts
He
Takes
His
Nor
Accounting
Prudent
Heir
Whom
Careful
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti
Owes
Thief
He
Voters
Wrongfully
Office
Against
Them
Who
Uses
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
Happiness
Life
Strange
True Happiness
Owes
Everything
Ourselves
Only
Purpose
True
Existence
Squandering
Owe
Little
Us
Bargain
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
Jack Dempsey
Champion
Owes
Pay
Everybody
Back
Something
Never
He
Him
Got
Making
Idol
Help
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man
Happy
World
Men
Owes
Ease
Ancient
Onward
Himself
Within
Inevitably
Limits
Impulses
Confines
Happy Man
Ill
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
Guy Kawasaki
People
World
Smart
Owes
Rules
Something
Wrong
Well-Meaning
Get
Different
Them
Believing
Start
Start Believing
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
Marlon Brando
Owes
Bore
Only
His
The Only Thing
Public
Them
Actor
Thing
Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
Mary J. Blige
You
Free
Owes
Someone
Give
Something
No-One
Feel
Wronged
Going
Anything
Even
By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.
Robert Zubrin
Nature
Owes
Living
Every
Increased
Enriching
Seven
Out
Atmosphere
Entire
Marvelous
Content
Existence
Impoverished
Effected
Improvement
Human
Human Beings
Much
Planet
Productivity
Beings
Roughly
Things
Levels
Humans
The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.
Andrew Zimmern
Owes
Type
Favorite
Islands
Cuisines
South
Lot
Western
American
Africa
Cookery
I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
Carlton Cuse
Time
Director
Owes
Think
Ways
Favorite
Kind
Unparalleled
All-Time
Window
More
Thriller
Almost
Feel
Like
Sort
Command
His
Than
North
Hitchcock
List
Northwest
Just
Psycho
Anyone
Movies
Certain
Rope
Rear
I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.
Charlie Sykes
Politics
Man
Conservative
Ideology
National
Owes
Think
Conservatism
Right-Wing
More
He
Principles
Without
Does
Trump
Than
Fixed
American
Any
Front
Far
Extent
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
Clint Eastwood
People
World
Some People
Owes
Living
Some
Feel
Them
I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.
Colin Mochrie
Me
Money
Owes
Enjoy
He
Although
Working
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