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• I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Crush, Growth, Atheism

  1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

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• Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

  Eugene Field

  Ideas, Pendulums, Immediacy

  "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.

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• Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Names, Certificates, Birth Certificate

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2007.

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• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

  Horace

  Life, World, Unnoticed

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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  Ernest Istook

  Iraq, Democracy, Eras

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• Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

  Mary Antin

  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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• If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Looks, Goddess, Labor

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• I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

  Ricki Lake

  Giving, Wanted

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• Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baby, Holy Water, Caverns

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

  Ginger Baker

  Abortion, Heavy Metal, Should

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• Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

  Roseanne Barr

  Kids, Night, Bed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Composer, Composing Music, Thousand

  Letter to Prince Karl Lichnowsky, 1806

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• Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Done, May

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• We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Lying, Bears

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• Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Children, Believe, Parent

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.1569, e-artnow

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• The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• What's done to children, they will do to society.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Family, Happiness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny Love, Love You, Funny Relationship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

  John Travolta

  Pain, Reality, Emotion

  "Travolta Supports Cruise's Silent Birth Method". The Hindustan Times, April 05, 2006.

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• I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

  Len Wein

  Nature, New York, Character

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Successful, Aptitude

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