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  • Thurgood Marshall A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
    Thurgood Marshall
    American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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  • Voltaire All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Napoleon Hill Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bhagavad Gita All mankind
    Is born for perfection
    And each shall attain it
    Will he but follow
    His nature's duty.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Lord George Byron All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brad Sherman Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Matthew Prior Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • James Russell Lowell Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Bill Owens Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Thomas Gray Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
    and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , St. 14
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Horace Mann Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Robert Frost Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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