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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. -- Ayn Rand
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present. -- Anna Freud
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living. -- Francois Hollande
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. -- William Graham Sumner
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. -- William Graham Sumner
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths. -- LZ Granderson
In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. -- Ridley Scott
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists. -- Steven Rattner
If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing. -- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
unearned suffering is redemptive. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sentimentality is unearned emotion. -- James Joyce
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism. -- Roger Ebert
True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.... -- Cecil B. Day
I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned. -- Roxane Gay
Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good. -- Gerald M. Loeb
People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged. -- DaShanne Stokes
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. -- Nathaniel Branden
Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use. -- Hal Finney
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned -- Patrick Rothfuss
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. -- Peggy McIntosh
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence. -- Ayn Rand
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. -- Dean Koontz
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others. -- Ayn Rand
Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for. -- Edward Abbey
Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ... -- June Jordan
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. -- Ayn Rand
Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned. -- Teju Cole
one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them. -- Peggy McIntosh
It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it. So when we guilt businessmen into giving, it's not in their self-interest. -- Yaron Brook
Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become. -- Michael Josephson

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