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«Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.»
«Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.»
Author: Josephine Baker
| Keywords:
Born Free, breeds, brotherhood, dice, place of birth, skin color, The Skin, The Weight, tone, uniquely, weight
«We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.»
«Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
accustomed, disaster, draws, give birth, instability, irresistible, miracle man, Natural Disasters, natural state, place of birth, regarding, scene, tie
«Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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autonomy, go to sleep, lights-out, lights, place of birth, reflects, rooms, starve, treatment
«We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
avails, borne, ceases, celebrating, feast, God the Father, In Me, place of birth, take place, The Eternal, The Father
«A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
History,
Libraries,
Life
| Keywords:
delivery, famous, history of ideas, modify, place of birth, Socrates
«One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
fellowship, Fellowship of, passing, place of birth, signs, The Fellowship of
«I came to the place of my birth and cried, ''The friends of my youth, where are they?'' And echo answered, ''Where are they?''»
«Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abroad, absent, borrow, do well, for a while, fulfil, place of birth, recall, ties, travelling, well enough
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