Quotes with natural-born

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  • Joseph Conrad A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Luis Bunuel A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Charles Dickens A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Gaston Bachelard A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Billy Strayhorn A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Brad Feld A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Alice Stone Blackwell A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Tryon Edwards Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Satchel Paige Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Ben Jonson All concord's born of contraries.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ezra Pound All great art is born of the metropolis.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Prince Philip All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Oprah Winfrey All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Lord George Byron All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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