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"[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born."

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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers."

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