"We were not born to sue, but to command."
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"I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo."
"I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born."
"We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born."
"We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom."
"You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything."
"I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free."
"All my life I have always known I was born to greatness."
"The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things."
"What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision."
"Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains."
"I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it."
"It's a true image, born of a false spectacle."
"Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against."
"Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
"When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?"
"Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence."
"The world I was born into was one filled with music."
"Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families."
"Great speakers are not born, they're trained."