Quotes with jewish-born

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  • John Dryden Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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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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  • 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.
    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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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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