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• A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

  Paul Simon

  Sex, Blessed, Luck

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• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

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• We're not all equal as far as intelligence is concerned. We're not equal as far as size. We're not all equal as far as appearance. We do not all have the same opportunities. We're not born in the same environments, but we're all absolutely equal in having the opportunity to make the most of what we have and not comparing or worrying about what others have.

  John Wooden

  Opportunity, Worry, Size

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• I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Heart, Offering

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• I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Forgiving, World, Betrayed

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Creativity, People

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• I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Law, Parent, Married

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• No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Way, Cop, Speed

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• I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

  Lou Holtz

  Wall, Winning, Eight

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Humble, Sin Of Pride, Pride And Humility

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• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Powerful, Book

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• Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

  Avril Lavigne

  Names, Bigs, Bowie

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• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  Dan Quayle

  Years, White, House

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• To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Hours, Merry, Merriment

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.117

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• Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Parent, Ordinary, Citizens

  Inauguration speech of His Excellency Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, at Quirino Grandstand in Manila (translated from Filipino), newsinfo.inquirer.net. June 30, 2010.

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• The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

  Robert M. Price

  Childhood, Joy, Promise

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• The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Volunteer, Desert, Reason

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• I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Unity

  Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

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• The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

  William Faulkner

  Drama, Taken, Past

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• Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, War, Hate

  "'La Guerre De Troie Naura Pas Lieu' ('Tiger at the Gates')". Play by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry, 1935.

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• Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

  George Santayana

  Blessed, Animal, Peaceful

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

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• We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

  Tom Stoppard

  Intuition, Mortality, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

  Pat Conroy

  Country, Sunshine, Dark

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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