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How to use the word deserve in a Sentence? Page #44

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I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

– Kyle Schmidt

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Ricky See thats what I'm talking about bobby, first class. You've got to get used to this my man, you deserve it. Hey ladies, you missed out on staying at the SoHo Grand on this trip you know what I mean. Listen, I'd offer you a ride in my limo, but I got to stretch my shit out. I'm a tall drink of water, don't want to wrinkle anything.

– Made

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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

– William Westmoreland

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First deserve, and then desire.

– English Proverb

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Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

– Theodore Hesburgh

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

– J. R. R. Tolkien

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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

– Marquis de Sade

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

– John Harrigan

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If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.

– Terry Josephson

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It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.

– Latin Proverb

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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

– Thucyclides

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

– James Grover Thurber

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

– Cicero

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

– Maureen Dowd

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

– Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.

– David Ben-Gurion

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When you deserve something....... Don't expect it, because Expectation is the root cause of dissapointment

– Siddharth Astir

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