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• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Equality, Men

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• All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Aggravation, Language, Decline

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.44, Editorial MAXTOR

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• When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ends, Yearning

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• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

  Horace

  Life, World, Unnoticed

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• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  Ernest Istook

  Iraq, Democracy, Eras

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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

  Mary Antin

  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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• I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

  Ricki Lake

  Giving, Wanted

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• If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Looks, Goddess, Labor

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• Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baby, Holy Water, Caverns

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

  Ginger Baker

  Abortion, Heavy Metal, Should

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• There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

  John Travolta

  Pain, Reality, Emotion

  "Travolta Supports Cruise's Silent Birth Method". The Hindustan Times, April 05, 2006.

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• Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

  Roseanne Barr

  Kids, Night, Bed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Done, May

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• The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Successful, Aptitude

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• We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Lying, Bears

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• A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

  Andrei Platonov

  War, Men, Given

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• Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Looking Forward, Preparing

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• What's done to children, they will do to society.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Family, Happiness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, My Daughter

  "Rebel reborn" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

  Len Wein

  Nature, New York, Character

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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