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"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
"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
"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
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..."	Václav Havel
"On Fathers Day, we again wish you all happy birthday."	Ralph Kiner
"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death -- ourselves."	Eda LeShan
"We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it."	Author Unknown
"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."	Buddha
"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
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."	Robert Lee Frost
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."	Benjamin Franklin
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."	Albert Einstein
"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
"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
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."	Albert Einstein
"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death: he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."	Jean de LaBruyere
"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
"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
"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."	John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
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Bob Dylan	Buddha	Clive Staples Lewis
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Dave Barry	Dean Koontz
Eda LeShan	Edna Ferber	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Erich Fromm	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	George Carlin
James Russel Lowell	Jean de LaBruyere	Jim
John Berger	John Herschel Glenn, Jr.	John Johnson
Kareem Abdul-Jabar	Leonardo da Vinci	Nancy Friday
Norman Cousins	Ralph Kiner	Robert Lee Frost
Robert Oxton Bolt	Sir Francis Bacon	Virginia Hanson
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