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Letter "B" » by birth
«Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?»
«A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.»
«I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
at birth, birth, births, blessed, blessed with, by birth, death, guess, guessed, in-between
«GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.»
«DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the _Mayflower_ and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds»
«It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter'.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
as well, at birth, birth, births, by birth, consequences, happens, irreversible, irrevocable, matters, no matter what happens, patience
«A man is great by deeds, not by birth.»
«Labor gives birth to ideas.»
«My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me. Of course, the mother I know the most about is the mother of our little group. She has been for 22 years trying to raise to maturity four children, three by birth and one by marriage. While she hasn't done a good job, the poor soul has done all that mortal human could do with the material she had to work with.»
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