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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? ↗

— Tony Campolo

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. ↗

— Albert Camus

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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. ↗

— Emile Zola

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Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

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It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers. ↗

— Arthur Capper

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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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