The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.


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My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD
Those who died were not just numbers. They were people with families.
ABRAHAM SCOTT
There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight,
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Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were her...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ
I've lost three of my buddies. Three of them died, and I'm the one who survived. They weren't just c...
JEFF BRIDGES
My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER
Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN
A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
MARTY RUBIN
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JONATHAN GALASSI
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
A poet is someone who never forgets that they were born naked.
MARTY RUBIN
I've been the oldest child since before you were born
E.L. KONIGSBURG
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The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my li...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
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SARAH J. MAAS
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. ...
DAMBISA MOYO
...the wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. ...
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I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protest...
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The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least reme...
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Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
God has already determine your success even before you were born
SUNDAY ADELAJA
God had already determined your success even before you were born
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.
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Everybody, of course, would rather be skating and building it like they were before, but now it's fo...
BRIAN MITCHELL
We were very pleased with the jury's verdict and after talking to the jury we were even more pleased...
ANDREW WHITE
Those who so pointlessly and terribly died were...non-replaceable.
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Most of those who were killed died in their homes.
DONNIE SMITH
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napole...
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One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
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One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON
You were born as the one you are.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC
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HENRY JAMES
Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born.
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ABIODUN OREBIYI
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
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The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
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DEBRA DECOURCY
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UNKNOWN
We were pleased with it. I was proud of them. We didn't have an outstanding meet the week before.
MATT ANDERSON
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CLINT EASTWOOD
The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.
JOHN WESLEY
Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.
TIM O'BRIEN
should have dogs before they have kids. Everybody .
JANEANE GAROFALO
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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ERIC DE GRAAF
I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
MARTHA STEWART
Before you start to consider your limits, you should consider that you were born limitless.
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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
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OLIVIER LAPOINTE
Everybody in those days was a foreigner, no matter where they were born; as industrial modernization...
JERRY HERRON
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
CICERO
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
MARCUS T. CICERO
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For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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The work praises the man.
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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
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