Jane Austen Quotes
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.
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When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
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To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
