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Deserve

"Deserve" is the word that I'm unwilling to use/hear these days. I don't know any more harmful words in the contemporary world.

Which one is more attractive?: 1) the one who something is theirs because they deserve it, and 2) the one who yearns and strives for something.

It is so painful to see someone who believes they can do something because they deserve it and claim it is their right.

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