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• I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

  Corliss Lamont

  Fate, Doe, Decree

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• The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together.

  Chapman Cohen

  Christian, People, Heaven

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• Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, People, Sake

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Tough times don't last but tough people do.
  No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.
  Men are born to succeed, not fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, People, Tough Times

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

  Dee Hock

  Struggle, Years, Age

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• Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Children, Knowing

  Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Leaders are not born, they're made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Discipline, Effort

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• Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual.

  Hua Ching Ni

  Spiritual, Church, Temples

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• If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Lost, Bethlehem

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• Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

  William Kittredge

  Mean, Thinking, Intimate Relationships

  William Kittredge (2010). “The Nature of Generosity”, p.13, Vintage

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• Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fire, Mind, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.572, Library of America

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• First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Practice, Firsts

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• It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

  Stevie Wonder

  Black, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

  Henry Morgentaler

  Children, Humanity, Attention

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• For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.

  Marshall Fritz

  Educational, Independent, Government

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• Between urine and filth we are born.

  Saint Augustine

  Filth

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• What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

  Klaus Barbie

  Regret, Would Be, Nazi

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• Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.

  Tim Wu

  Believe, Exercise, Liberty

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.223, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  America, Homeless, Fugitive

  "Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2011.

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• Empowerment is a thing that you earn over time - as you overcome obstacles, learn, and accomplish things, you become empowered. Empowerment is not a thing that you are born with and that the parent's job is to get out of the way of. Empowerment is a thing that you earn. And some of that is that you become empowered by knowing that you were disempowered or by knowing that there were tremendous limits on what you were able to do, as a young person.

  John Roderick

  Jobs, Knowing, Parent

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• It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

  Lord Dunsany

  Hours, Insects

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories”, p.9, Booklassic

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• There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

  Muddy Waters

  Mean, Light, Ems

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• The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

  Erich Fromm

  Important, Development, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

  Matisyahu

  Meaningful, Song, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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