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• No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

  Salman Rushdie

  Stories

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

  Queen Victoria

  Men, Suffering, Trials

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• Sex doesn't have to be taught. It's something most of us are born with.

  Pat Paulsen

  Sex, Taught

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• Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

  William Zinsser

  Memories, Custodians, Records

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• Just be.  Don't try to be yourself, because you already are.  Balance your spirit and empower your gifts.  If it is in you and you can feel it, see it, and want to share it, then learn to understand it, not become it.  We are born with all the wisdom in the world; it's up to us to open the door inch by inch throughout life.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Being Yourself, Doors, Empowering

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• I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Conversation, Okay, Feels

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• I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  Should Have, Causes, Suggestions

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• If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are.  You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you.  You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mirrors, Perfect, Looks

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• No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

  Norman Douglas

  Men, Too Late, Great Men

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Democracy, Cameras, Digging

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• We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

  Peter David

  Dying, Moments

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• Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Struggle, Fighting, America

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• Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Ends, Dies

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

  Joan Baez

  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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

  Rod McKuen

  People

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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