"Born merely for the purpose of digestion." — Jean de la Bruyere

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of… — Neil Armstrong
• I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
• We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
• I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,… — Margaret Atwood
• Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where… — Sai Baba
• The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What… — Richard Bach
• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
• The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when… — Michelle Bachelet
• I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as… — Francis Bacon

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