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Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
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.
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt read more
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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.
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving read more
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, read more
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.
