Quotes with born-yesterday

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  • Greil Marcus It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Benedict Wong It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Felix Frankfurter Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Bernard Marcus Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Vince Lombardi Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Vince Lombardi Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • M. Anderson Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
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  • Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mark Twain Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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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.
    A Beautiful Thought… we clip from an exchange paper Universalist Union (16 March 1844)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Sir William Temple Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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