Quotes with born-yesterday

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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Benny Green The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Margaret Oliphant The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Bill Cosby The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Barbara Deming The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
    Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Ovid The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Peter F. Drucker The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Sir George Jessel The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
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  • Washington Irving The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Louise Bogan The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • Warren Buffett The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Elaine Agather The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
    Elaine Agather
    American banker
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  • C. Wright Mills The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafĂ©.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Germaine Greer The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Arnold Bennett The moment you're born you're done for.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Channing Pollock The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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