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		For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
	
	  Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor
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		But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.
	
	  Annia Ciezadlo Annia Ciezadlo
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		What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.
	
	  Paul Auster Paul Auster
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		All forms of birth-physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional-bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.
	
	  Amy Wright Amy Wright
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		Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
	
	  Gautama Buddha Gautama Buddha
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		Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
	
	  Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Lenin
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		A person can't help their birth.
	
	  William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray
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		All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.
	
	  William Davenant William Davenant
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		Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.
	
	  William Empson William Empson
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		The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
	
	  William Osler William Osler
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		For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.
	
	  Alexander Acosta Alexander Acosta
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		But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
	
	  Sophocles Sophocles