#born

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

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'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#new #nothing #nothing new #sun #under

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. ↗

— Ice T

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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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