"Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth."
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"I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment."
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"Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth."
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"Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it."
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"I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate had an expiration date on it."
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"The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth."
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"Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!"
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"Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance"
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"I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life."
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"Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot."
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"My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me."
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"There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment."
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"Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe."
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"Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves."
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"Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune."
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"Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death."
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"Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is."
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"I was born in a Negro town."
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"Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry."
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"In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another."
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