“ As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. ”
- Babe Ruth- Copy
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“ My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months. ”
- Ginger Rogers- Copy
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“ It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains. ”
- Elizabeth II- Copy
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“ Not to be born is best, but having seen the light, the next best is to go whence one came as soon as may be. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. One who does the work ordained by one's inherent nature incurs no sin. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of — or reincarnated from — royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God. ”
- Duke Ellington- Copy
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“ A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers. ”
- Beatrix Campbell- Copy
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