"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain
There is no point in claiming that the world owes you something because the odds of it delivering what you want without any effort from you are slim. So, I agree that the world owes nothing to anyone, but not because it was here first. If what's here first never owes anything to what comes after then we might as well not expect parents to support their children, we shouldn't expect world leaders to give a damn about anybody born after them, and we should ignore the needs of future generations...all because those came after.
Yes, the world owes you nothing. No, the reason is not that it was here first.
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you only get from the world what you put in to it
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