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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay." Kareem Abdul-Jabar 2.6000 average rating  
"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." Sir Francis Bacon 4.0000 average rating  
"We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were." John Berger 4.9091 average rating  
"Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade." Jim 4.6000 average rating  
"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." Robert Oxton Bolt 3.3333 average rating  
"The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills." Anthony Brandt 4.7500 average rating  
"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds." Buddha 4.9375 average rating  
"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." Norman Cousins 3.5625 average rating  
"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." Leonardo da Vinci 4.5000 average rating  
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 4.4444 average rating  
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory." Albert Einstein 4.7895 average rating  
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." Albert Einstein 4.6316 average rating  
"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never." Edna Ferber 5.0000 average rating  
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments." Benjamin Franklin 4.8000 average rating  
"When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself." Nancy Friday 5.0000 average rating  
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." Erich Fromm 4.7500 average rating  
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." Erich Fromm 4.7500 average rating  
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." Robert Lee Frost 4.8571 average rating  
"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 4.6000 average rating  
"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." John Herschel Glenn, Jr. 4.5714 average rating  
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