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    Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

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Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them read more

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

by Maya Angelou Found in: Birth Quotes,
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Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

by Doug Horton Found in: Birth Quotes,
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not read more

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

by Mark Twain Found in: Birth Quotes,
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About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

by Kin Hubbard Found in: Birth Quotes,
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If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in read more

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

by Laurence Housman Found in: Birth Quotes,
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

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Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has read more

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

by William Macneile Dixon Found in: Birth Quotes,
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