Quotes with born-yesterday

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  • Anna Quindlen Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.
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  • Bode Miller Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Rosa Parks Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Felicia D. Hemans Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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  • Casey Stengel Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • John Gay Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Dylan That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Auguste Rodin The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Camille Paglia The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Italo Calvino The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • H.G. Wells The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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