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birth
«Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
began, birth, hurried, hurrying, walking
«Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.»
«Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life»
«Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again»
«One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness»
Author: Dalai Lama
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affects, birth, bring about, conditioning, contentment, core, degree, discover, human being, ideology, neither, question, social, suffering, therefore, think about, underlie, underlies
«One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
at birth, birth, births, by birth, dancing, From Chaos, given birth, give birth, oneself, star
«There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Aristocracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, artificial, ascendancy, birth, founded, ingredient, mischievous, prevent, provisions, talents, virtue, wealth