Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."
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Muhammad Iqbal
Poet, Philosopher
"From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself."
Naguib Mahfouz
Novelist
"Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne"
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"We are all born children- the trick is remaining one."
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"I'm a born librarian with a sex drive."
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"I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it"
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"Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that."
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"They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born."
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"We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship."
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"I was born to race and to win."
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"If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other."
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"Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy."
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"The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose."
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"No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education."
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"No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree."
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"Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda."
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"I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth."
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"All great art is born of the metropolis."
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"Art is born out of an ill-designed world."
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"America was born a Christian nation."
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"Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born."
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"Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die."
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"If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet."
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