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• Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Desire, Kitsch

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• We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

  Zhuangzi

  Sleep, Awakening, Calm

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• Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

  Anton Chekhov

  Spirit, Talent, Capacity

  Anton Chekhov (2008). “About Love and Other Stories”, p.14, OUP Oxford

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• I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.

  Tertullian

  Kings, Judging, Soldier

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• Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Faces, Repent

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• The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sorry, Distance, Men

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• I was born a Christian, but I became an atheist back in high school because I just started losing faith. I'd lost my brother and best friend, Nadarius. I couldn't get a job. But I do feel like there is a higher power now, and it's inside of me.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Christian, Brother, Atheist

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Part of the reason that America is born in the world is to demonstrate an openness and a goodness and a compassion that is all too absent. It's part of the reason that I feel every day so blessed that I and so many Jews have found this wonderful haven, and I hope that we can spread that message and that people who come here will find it as inspiring as I think all of us do.

  David Wolpe

  Blessed, Thinking, Compassion

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible.

  Famke Janssen

  Country, Grateful, Opportunity

  "Famke Janssen Talks HEMLOCK GROVE Season 2, What’s New For Olivia, Working in Genre, and More". Interview, collider.com. July 5, 2014.

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• I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

  Anita Loos

  Father, Writing, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Expectations, Might, Thai

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.

  Jill Soloway

  Moving, Eye, Your Side

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.

  Ari Up

  Mother, Baby, Stars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.

  Ari Up

  Should Have, Important, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.

  Marla Runyan

  Senior, Kids, Loss

  Source: visionlossresources.org

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• I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Mean

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

  Roger Moore

  London, Treats

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• It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Teaching, Perfection, Alive

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• The one who is not being born is dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Dying

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• Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. The novel is a comic form. Language is a comic form, and makes jokes in its sleep. God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation. Yet it is also the case that life is horrible, without metaphysical sense, wrecked by chance, pain and the close prospect of death. Out of this is born irony, our dangerous and necessary tool.

  Iris Murdoch

  Pain, Sleep, Laughing

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.80, Penguin

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• The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

  Martin Buber

  Order, Needs

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• There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

  Louis L'Amour

  War, Character, Hard Times

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• It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Skills, Ideas

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

  George Meredith

  My Friends

  George Meredith (2015). “Beauchamp's Career”, p.82, George Meredith

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• I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

  Bruce Babbitt

  People, Century, Resent

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