"It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born."
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"I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself."
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"Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage."
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"Every character when born is a stereotype."
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"We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it"
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"We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time."
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"Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human."
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"For hope is always born at the same time as love."
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"Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them."
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"A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation."
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"What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do."
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"The faith I was born into formed me."
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