"Leaders are not born or made - they are self made"
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"We never change, we never die, and we are never born."
"A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff."
"But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet."
"All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow."
"My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year."
"I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much."
"Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal."
"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
"If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore."
"America, you must be born again!"
"For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing."
"I was born in revolution."
"We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!"
"Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence."
"Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?"
"Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book."
"Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage."
"Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this."
"Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it"