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• We forget that stretch marks, cellulite and some stomach fat is natural. We forget that we are born human and physically can't be perfect. We forget that God doesn't make us out of plastic and silicone. We forget to be flawed.

  Skye Townsend

  Perfect, Forget, Natural

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• Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

  Nick Turse

  Real, War, Moon

  "American War Versus Real War" by Nick Turse, www.motherjones.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

  Carolina Kostner

  Believe, Hard Work, Passion

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• Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  Daniel A. D'Aniello

  People, Raised, Wells

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• A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ' al hamdulillah', praise be
  to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born
  (completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing.

  Kristiane Backer

  Fighting, Blessing, Long

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• We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.

  Kass Morgan

  People, Care, Take Care

  Kass Morgan (2014). “Day 21: The 100 Book Two”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Sahara, Evolution

  Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

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• Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

  Nas

  Thrones, Crowns, Crew

  Song: The World is Yours

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• I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

  Mary Pickford

  Hollywood, Saws, Dies

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

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• My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It's the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Girl, Dad, Happy Life

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Rain, Dirty

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• Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Scream, Silent

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• Christmas was a miserable time for a Jewish child in those days, and I still recall the feeling. ... Decades later, I still feel left out at Christmas, but I sing the carols anyway. You might recognize me if you ever heard me. I'm the one who sings, 'La-la, the la-la is born.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Christmas, Children, Feelings

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• Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

  Ken Robinson

  Creative, Curious, Humans

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• Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.

  Nico Muhly

  Children, Church, Sound

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Blessed

  William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) (1806). “Selections from the Works of ... W. Law, making a guide to rest, in belief of the Gospel, and in obedience to the Divine Law”, p.581

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• I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Justice

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• What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Cry, Should

  "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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• I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

  Jessamyn West

  Hate, Creating, Mind

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.

  David Mitchell

  Moving, Writing, Garden

  "Once upon a life" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

  Michael Gruber

  Book, Air, Intellectual

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• Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

  Sting

  Stars, Revenge, Violence

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• To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

  Lord Byron

  Track, Guilt, Forfeit

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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