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

Quote by Mark Twain about world, nothing

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!

Quote by Joseph Addison about greatness, country, man

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Quote by Hans Eysenck about truth, things, world

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.

Quote by Henry Ford about man, world

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.

Quote by William Penn about wisdom

The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do...

Quote by John Perkins about nation, country, people

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

Quote by Marlon Brando about actors, public, things

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Quote by John Gay about shadow, light