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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum -
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
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Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
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Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
A Brief History of Time (1988) -
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
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How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
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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 would be curiosity.
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I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940) -
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
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