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"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them." »Bertrand Russell
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"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been." »Joseph Brooks
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"Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it." »Charles Babbage
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"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing." »Thomas Fuller
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"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain." »Aristotle
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". . . I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels." »John Calvin
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"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption." »Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth." »Erma Bombeck
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"Man's main task is to give birth to himself." »Erich Fromm
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"I rely on my personality for birth control." »Liz Winston
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"My birth was just an incident but my death will not go unnoticed" »Nishad Abubakar
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"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference." »Voltaire
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"Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference." »Voltaire
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"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable." »Bhagavad Gita
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"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." »Stendhal
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"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head." »Carole Burnett
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"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." »Mark Twain
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"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh." »Francis Bacon
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"For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable." »Bhagavad Gita
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval" »George Santayana
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"How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." »Mark Twain
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." »George Santayana
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"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." »Albert Einstein
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"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth." »John Milton
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"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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