Quotes with natural-born

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bhagavad Gita If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.
    Bhagavadgita Ch. 2, v. 19
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Baruch Spinoza If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • George Earle Buckle If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Bette Midler If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • W. H. Auden If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Gloria Steinem If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Burton Richter In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Cat Stevens In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Adrienne Rich In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • V. S. Pritchett In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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