DESERVE, n. The quality of being entitled to what somebody else obtains.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Deserve,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1882-03-03)
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves “naturally” elite, and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist, academic, author [Charles Wright Mills]
The Power Elite, ch. 1 “The Higher Circles,” sec. 4 (1956)
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CALVIN: I wish I could just take a pill to be perfect and I wish I could just push a button and have anything I want.
HOBBES: The American Dream lives on.
CALVIN: Why should I have to work for everything?! It’s like saying I don’t deserve it!
