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• For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fashion, Heirs, Belief

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

  Queen Victoria

  Men, Suffering, Trials

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• Sex doesn't have to be taught. It's something most of us are born with.

  Pat Paulsen

  Sex, Taught

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• I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born

  George Mason

  Country, Ambition, Son

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• Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

  William Zinsser

  Memories, Custodians, Records

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• Just be.  Don't try to be yourself, because you already are.  Balance your spirit and empower your gifts.  If it is in you and you can feel it, see it, and want to share it, then learn to understand it, not become it.  We are born with all the wisdom in the world; it's up to us to open the door inch by inch throughout life.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Being Yourself, Doors, Empowering

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• I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Rights, Wife

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “Living History”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

  Ogden Nash

  Owl, Trying, Should

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• With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Baseball, Fields, Feels

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• I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Conversation, Okay, Feels

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• I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  Should Have, Causes, Suggestions

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• A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Enthusiasm, Persons, Greater

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are.  You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you.  You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mirrors, Perfect, Looks

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• No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

  Norman Douglas

  Men, Too Late, Great Men

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere

  Gordon Downie

  Persevere, Lost

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• There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  Laozi

  Mother, Men, Names

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• Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Democracy, Cameras, Digging

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• We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

  Peter David

  Dying, Moments

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• Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Dark, Sky

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• Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Struggle, Fighting, America

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• Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Ends, Dies

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• Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

  Umberto Eco

  Grief, Joy, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Book, People, Want

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• I was not born to be forced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

  Joan Baez

  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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