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• People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

  Rod McKuen

  People

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• I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

  Serena Williams

  Hard Work, Player, Color

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• Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Order, Use, World

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Mystery, Appearance

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• I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

  Bipasha Basu

  Laughing, Cynical, Being Positive

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• Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Christian, Powerful, Hate

  George Amos Dorsey (1931). “Man's own show: civilization”

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• I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

  Ethel Waters

  Wedlock

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• That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Opposites, Future Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• I truly believe that America's best days are still ahead of her. And for this, I am thankful to God. I am thankful that one day the war on terror will end, not because we have lost, but because we have won! I am thankful that one day our economy will rebound, not because of governmental micro-management, but as a result of America's entrepreneurial resolve. I am thankful that one day the born and the unborn will be equal under the eyes of the law in every state.

  Mike Huckabee

  War, Believe, Eye

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• Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Musician, Lovers

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• Some people are born very far from home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, People

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• [N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

  Lucretius

  Aids, One Thing

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• I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

  Doyle Brunson

  Sports, Believe, Minutes

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• The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Stars, Ideas, Age

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• I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

  Aphra Behn

  Hero, Fame, Ifs

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.191, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

  Loretta Lynn

  Mother, Wall, Names

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• I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

  Philippe Petit

  Writing, World, Classical Music

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• The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Successful, Common Purpose, Leader

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• I've obviously been born fortunate. I love people. I enjoy every single minute of my life.

  Richard Branson

  People, Minutes, Enjoy

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• Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.

  Paul Smith

  Wise, Thinking, Stories

  Paul Smith (2012). “Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire”, p.253, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

  Dennis Miller

  Needs, Firsts, Born Again

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• A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

  Laozi

  Men, Weak, Gentle

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• Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Unique, Special, Earth

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• The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

  Vanna Bonta

  Reality, Quantum, Realms

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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