"Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."
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"In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal."
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"Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth."
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"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living."
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"Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down"
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"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth."
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"What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?"
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"Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit."
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"A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment."
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"Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors."
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"I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from."
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"From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought."
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"Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite."
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"Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse."
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"There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance."
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"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."
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"Death was no less a miracle than birth."
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"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth."
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"Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own."
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"For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering."
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