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• I was born to stand, fight and when all is done to give God the glory for the victories.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Fighting, Giving, Victory

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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 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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• It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Advantage, Educated, Honestly

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “Essential works of Erasmus”

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• He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

  Robert L. Millet

  Pain, Sacrifice, Treasure

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• ...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Sleep, Hands, Ego

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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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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• To live is to be slowly born.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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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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• My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

  Mary Martin

  Waiting, Alive, Emptiness

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• I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, World, Whole

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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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• My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Mother, Running, Moving

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• Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

  Octavio Paz

  Love Is, Sight, Firsts

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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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• 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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• Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Heaven, Earth, Christ

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• Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

  Oswald Chambers

  Joy, Purpose, Born Again

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again...but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Needs, Gone

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• Jesus Christ who was of the race of David, who was the Son of Mary, who was truly born and ate and drank, was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate, was truly crucified and died in the sight of those in heaven and on earth and those under the earth; who moreover was truly raised from the dead, His Father having raised Him, who in the like fashion will so raise us also who believe on Him.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Fashion, Jesus, Father

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• We are born nude and everything after that is drag.

  RuPaul

  Drag

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• In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

  Mark Levin

  Men, Riches, Poverty

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Ignorance, Men

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.58, Hoover Institution Press

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• When the world was born, everybody was naked.

  Riff Raff

  Naked, World

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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