Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
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.
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
All I owe the world is my art.
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