"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."
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"He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life."
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"Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified."
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"I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert."
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"A well-behaved woman seldom makes history"
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"To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops."
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"He that can work is born to be king of something."
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"For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal."
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"Happy the heart where love has come to birth."
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"Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end."
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"The birth of my daughter, gave me life."
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"The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence."
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"I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice."
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"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
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"Education must start from birth."
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"There is no birth of consciousness without pain."
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"We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all."
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"Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."
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"It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings."
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"Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth."
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