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

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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at read more

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

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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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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.

by Benito Mussolini 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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Birth is the beginning of death

Birth is the beginning of death

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Birth Quotes,
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

by Eleanor Roosevelt 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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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found read more

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

by Sam Levinson Found in: Birth Quotes,
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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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