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  • Malcolm X Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Doug Horton Smile, it's free therapy.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Robert Browning So free we seem, so fettered we are!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bill Janklow So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Source: Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alexander Downer So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Watts Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Beth Ditto Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ada Leverson Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
    Source: Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Joseph Heller Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barry Switzer Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
    Barry Switzer
     
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  • Julie Andrews Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
    Julie Andrews
    English actress, singer, and author (1935 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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