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• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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• The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Morning, Hero, Men

  Zora Neale Hurston, Chic Street Man, George C. Wolfe (2000). “Spunk: Three Tales”, p.42, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Father, Sleep

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

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• The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Believe, Struggle, Adulthood

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Quality, Titles

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.174

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• I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

  William Shenstone

  Silly, Character, People

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107

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• Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

  Stephanie Mills

  Talking, Giving, Feelings

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• The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

  Bill Vaughan

  Lioness, Three, Lions

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• No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

  Emma Goldman

  Responsibility, Birth Control, Demand

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

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• From birth to death we are alone.

  Enid Bagnold

  Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”

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• Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

  Gloria Naylor

  Jobs, Work, Doors

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Flower, Woven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.531

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• Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hebrew, Sublimity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1871). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.406

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• The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

  Indira Gandhi

  Birth Control, Affluence, Contraceptives

  Indira Gandhi, Som Benegal (1976). “Freedom is the starting point: a collection of memorable words”

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• From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

  Ayya Khema

  Feelings, Reactions, Contact

  Geshe Tashi Tsering, Ayya Khema (2010). “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

  Michael Drayton

  Mean, Titles, Virtue

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• A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

  Marie Stopes

  Civilization, Birth Control, Modern

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• The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.

  Homer

  Age

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• For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.

  Lucretius

  Real, Animal, Soul And Body

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, I. 113,

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• Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

  Socrates

  Men, Rose, Empires

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

  Wilson Mizner

  Real, Giving, Bird

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• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Nice, Mean

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.296, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

  Plutarch

  Men, Vices, Savages

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• Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.338

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