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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

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Samuel Johnson

Gary owes an apology because he started the lockout. He put all of this in motion.

Bob Goodenow

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoover

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

Joshua Jackson

The UPA Government owes an explanation to the entire working class.

Dipankar Mukherjee

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne

I hate Lou Dobbs with a passion. He is my mortal enemy. If i find him, I will destroy him. He owes me 15 dollars.

Brent Musburger

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller

He owes approximately $30,000. I believe it's a little bit over that amount.

Melissa Clark

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

James Bryant Conant

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

Jose Canseco

The vast majority of these disputes are over money, who owes how much when.

Sam Marasco

You have to fight and hold on for all America, to say to all corporations in this country that in this day and age, America owes working families a decent life.

Anna Burger

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

Jack Dempsey

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.

Dave Whelan

But the ambulance fund owes the county's general fund $100,000. That's down from $160,000 when I started, but we can't do much until that is paid back.

Paul Petty

I think the girls are up for the game. Plus Inter-Lakes owes us a win after what they did to us in playoffs last year.

Corey Pinard

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James F. Cooper

There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.

Richard Solomon

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

Mark Twain

The company owes answers to the mining families, the company owes answers to me, the company owes answers to Pennsylvania.

Mark Schweiker

They are like lobbyists. They're spreading the money around, so whoever wins owes them.

Juan Cole

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Harry Crews

Salesforce.com however owes it to [customers] to explain why this happened. They should be taking active responsibility and refunding costs to customers.

Joshua Greenbaum

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Owen D. Young

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

John Stuart Mill

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

Patsy Kelly

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

Jack Dempsey

After denial they go through anger. They take on a 'poor-me' attitude, as if everybody owes them something.

Cheryl Moore

Chris still owes the city $2,500.

Al Wilkinson

I still tell him he owes me money for my phone bill.

Dan Goldberg

I think in a way the world owes him and his memory a tremendous amount of gratitude.

Marvin Hier

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Mark Caine

He owes us one year of back taxes right now and one year of current taxes.

Bob Patterson