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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) -
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
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It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method -
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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