"Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain."
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"Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?"
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"What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death."
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"Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth."
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"There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate."
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"A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child."
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"... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time."
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"To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."
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"Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth."
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"I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever."
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"I am! I have come through! I belong!"
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"Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth."
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"What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is there seems to be a theme here around markets and capitalism and labour. This is a moment, 1971, of something that was under the counter: then brown paper bags suddenly became legal, pornography. And it was really the birth of an industry which is now a multi-billion dollar American standard. And these people were the pioneers at a moment where there really were no rules, then suddenly there was a legal industry that was allowed to exist."
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"I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!"
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"Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content."
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"It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action."
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"Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth."
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"Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again."
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"The end of a life is always vivifying."
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"Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard."
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