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• I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

  Dolly Parton

  Attitude, Heart, Trying

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• The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

  Jerry Lewis

  Ownership, Share, You Choose

  Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan (2011). “Dean And Me: A Love Story”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.

  Pauly Shore

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Pain, Waiting, Transition

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("Z'ha'dum", 1996), www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

  Mark Cuban

  Passionate, One Thing

  "Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort". blogmaverick.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

  John Dryden

  Genius, Taught

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• The months before my son was born,
  I used to yell from night to morn,
  'Whatever it is, I'm against it!
  No matter what it is or who commenced it,
  I'm against it!'

  Groucho Marx

  Son, Night, Matter

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• Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Doe, Firsts

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• There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

  Mark Nepo

  Order, Facts, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Mar 27, 2015

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• God rose up from His throne and said to demon powers tormenting the sinless Son of God, 'Let Him go.' Then the resurrection power of Almighty God went through hell and filled Jesus. .. He was resurrected from the dead - the first born-again man.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Son, Men

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• French fries. I have been obsessed with them since I was born. I like big, big steak fries, curly fries, seasoned fries - any kind!

  Corbin Bleu

  Kind, Obsessed, Steak

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• Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

  Mark Knopfler

  Years, Scotland, Firsts

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• If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

  C. Wagner

  Cities, Individual, Born Again

  C. Peter Wagner (2006). “The Church in the Workplace: How God's People Can Transform Society”, p.43, Gospel Light Publications

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• Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'

  Charles Koch

  Country, Father, Kids

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.

  Toks Olagundoye

  My Family, Raised, Still Life

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.

  Grace Paley

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

  Krishna Das

  People, Germany, Littles

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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• We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Taken, School

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to give me that rock solid foundation in the church and in my faith which really has served me so well.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Religious, Rocks, Who I Am

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I was born in the Chi fo sho' and raised there till I was like 15. I then went on the road with X [DMX] and then moved to New York. I've moved to L.A. since then. I really have been bouncing around since 15.

  Yung Berg

  New York, Raised, Moved

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• Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Mind, Looks

  Thomas Paine (2006). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you had always been free to learn, you would follow your natural tendency to find out as fully as possible about the things that interest you, cars or stars. We are born with what they call "love of learning"

  Grace Llewellyn

  Stars, Car, Natural

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• To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wall, Order, Differences

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• Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

  Walt Whitman

  Lucky, Leaves Of Grass, Knows

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 7

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