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• I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

  Groucho Marx

  Regret, Years, Age

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

  Robert L. Millet

  Pain, Sacrifice, Treasure

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• ...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Sleep, Hands, Ego

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.

  Melvin Burgess

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• Good NCOs are not just born-they are groomed and grown through a lot of hard work and strong leadership by senior NCOs.

  William A. Connelly

  Senior, Strong, Hard Work

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• Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Thinking, Lovers, God Love

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• To live is to be slowly born.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• I was not born to share the hate, but love.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Love Hate, Share

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• Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Kindness, People, Deeds

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

  Mary Martin

  Waiting, Alive, Emptiness

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• Your future is bigger than where you were born.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Bigger, Your Future, Our Future

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• If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

  Peter Meinke

  Writing, Long, Chance

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• Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

  Rumi

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, World, Whole

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• We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

  Epicurus

  Tomorrow, Birth, Eternity

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fate, Civilization, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Mother, Running, Moving

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• Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

  Octavio Paz

  Love Is, Sight, Firsts

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• Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.

  Ravi Shastri

  Determination, Team, Boys

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• There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

  Mark Twain

  Ifs

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.61, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

  Margaret Sanger

  Southern, Inferiors, Native

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• Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Drama, Thinking, Views

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2164, Library of Alexandria

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• Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

  Milan Kundera

  Catholic, Prague, Empires

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• What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Evil, Joy

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anxiety, Leisure, Praying

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