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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote. — Brian Wilson
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? — Naomi Wolf
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement. — Christopher Hitchens
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. — Michael Chabon
Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones,… — Stephen Colbert
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. — Ayn Rand
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects… — Ayn Rand
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you,… — Christina Rossetti
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. — Gregory Maguire
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. — Mark Twain
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people… — Brandon Sanderson
Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then,… — Larry McMurtry
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak… — Virginia Woolf
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one… — Barack Obama
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most… — Jon Krakauer
Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them. — Jim Butcher
And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly… — Terry Pratchett

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