Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 1905.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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[Soldier speaking to another soldier:] Why the hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?
Source: LIFE Magazine, 16 July 1945, Cartoon Caption -
[Speaking of Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner:] The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted.
Source: New York Times, 24 July 1978 -
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Before you can do something you must first be something.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
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It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
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Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
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