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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles

Love, Friendship, Alone

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

Work, Stupid, Hard

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Great, Greatness, Achieve

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn

Give, Terrible, Affection

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Music, Food, Heart

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Society, White, Greater

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

Friend, Until, Meeting

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, True, Cannot

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain

Life, Age, Approach

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar

Win, Winner, Plan

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

Great, Sacrifice, Result

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison

Black, Remember, Actually

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya

Good, Alone, Karma

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Education, Learning

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato

Men, Wise, Hero

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

Great, Cry, Stage

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho Marx

Except, Democrats, Alike

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin

America, Show, Freak

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn

Change, Character, Weren

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, Time, War

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi

Hard, Made, Goal

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey Hepburn

Hell, Dog, Mess

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Past, Person, Black

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believing, Tree, Beliefs

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Society, Rule

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix

Put, Kids, Naked

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe

Career, Talent, Public

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus

Great, Thoughts, Often

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