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• I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

  Pamela Anderson

  Character, Son, Beverly Hills

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• A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Moon, Men

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• Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.

  Kat Von D

  Writing, Waiting, Skins

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• Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Blessed, Home, Heaven

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• So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Thinking, Society

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• Dawn is born at midnight.

  Carl Jung

  Dawn, Midnight

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• An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

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• Law of Attraction abounds, and when it is said to you, 'Ask, and it is given,' there is no more powerful statement that is at the basis of what makes things happen than that. Now, how is it that you think you ask? With your words? The Universe doesn't hear your words. You ask with your desire. The desire that is born out of the contrast. That desire. That wanting. That's what summons the Life Force.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

  Eric Thomas

  Kids, Talking, Speak

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• Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Race, Order, Should Have

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• I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

  Maurice Sendak

  Baby, Moving, Ready

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• You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

  Caroline Myss

  Dream, Ambition, Personality

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• I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to say, "Leave her on the hillside to die. She's only a girl baby." I think they said it somewhat as a joke, maybe not, but it made me understand that being born female in this world was very different from being born male.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Girl, Baby, Thinking

  "VIDEO: Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs Turns 100; Watch Never-Before-Aired Interview". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 27, 2015.

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• I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

  Groucho Marx

  Regret, Years, Age

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Thinking, Lovers, God Love

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• I was not born to share the hate, but love.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Love Hate, Share

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• Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Kindness, People, Deeds

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

  Peter Meinke

  Writing, Long, Chance

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• Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

  Rumi

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

  Epicurus

  Tomorrow, Birth, Eternity

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fate, Civilization, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

  Margaret Sanger

  Southern, Inferiors, Native

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• Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Drama, Thinking, Views

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2164, Library of Alexandria

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• What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Evil, Joy

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anxiety, Leisure, Praying

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