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• If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Stars, Astonishment, Skeptical

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Art, Years, Magic

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• I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Journey, Ends

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• I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope.

  Peter Jackson

  Dragons, Chinese, Fans

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Likes And Dislikes, Mind, Chariots

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

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• Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

  Mother Angelica

  Pain, Eye, Suffering

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• ... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Giving, Innovation

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• The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Children, Character

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• I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

  Steve Irwin

  Kids, Cake, Pieces

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• A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Stoic, Epicurean

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become.

  Jim Shaw

  Art, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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