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• Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Fate, Effort

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.

  Richard Halliburton

  Motivational, Powerful, Land

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• I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

  James Kavanaugh

  Rain, Fall, Night

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• I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Digging, Ashes, Faces

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.213, Hachette UK

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• It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

  Gaynor Arnold

  Ignorance, Hatred, Good Things

  Gaynor Arnold (2011). “Girl in a Blue Dress”, p.321, Profile Books

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  I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

  Andrew Jackson

  Storm, Doe, Suits

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• Who ever said that one was born just once?

  Jacques Derrida

  Said

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.339, Stanford University Press

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• If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Nails, Hammered, Ifs

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• If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

  Emily Yoffe

  Want, Has Beens, Written

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Criminals, Citizens, Neglect

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• Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

  Cesare Pavese

  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Wisdom, Horse, Barns

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• Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!

  Billy Connolly

  Dies

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• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

  Victor Hugo

  Horse, Journey, Hands

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• Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Strong, Fall

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• I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

  Alex Kozinski

  Speak, Communism, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

  James Larkin

  Years, Done

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• Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

  Sam Harris

  Jesus, Rose, Heaven

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.

  John Locke

  Country, Kings, Lying

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• Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

  John Bingham

  Parent, United States, Citizens

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• What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Cry, Should

  "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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• I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Air, Water

  Francis Bacon (1868). “The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works”, p.84

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