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“The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.”

Mean Whole Fall Nations Birth Shanghai

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.”

People Life Mean Dies Born Creativity Creative Birth Creativeness

Author:Erich Fromm

“Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.”

Mean Causes Born Natural Issues Modern Dying Birth Celebration Avoided Predictable Parts Of Life Modern Society Unspeakable Very Mean

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.”

Mean Steps Birth Consequence Motherhood Artificial Frustrated Fatherhood Irresponsible

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.”

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”

Men Mean Children Able Poverty Birth Disease Ill Shakes Diseased Hereditary

Book:Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

“Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.”

Should Humans Mean Sound Human Beings One Thing Birth Factors Bleak Unifying

Author:Nick Cave

“Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.”

“We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life of clutter such as wasted time, energy, resources, or draining relationships. These things can jeopardize our dreams by distracting us at a time when we should be more focused than ever.”

Needs Should Mean Dream Might Energy Rooms Our Lives Willing Birth Resources Focused Our Dreams Clutter Wasted Time Draining Jeopardize

Author:Christine Caine

“All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.”

Mean Soul Able Born Return Birth Embrace Painful Separation Limitation Expansion Reunion Dissolution Confinement Individuation

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.”

Giving Mean Able Our Lives Economic Birth Elements Sexuality Welfare Crucial Reproduction Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Gloria Steinem

“To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.”

Mean Said Ends Son Birth Ancient Nobility

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!”

Men Mean Greatness Birth Blessing Slave Esteem Golden Curse Freeman Golden Mean

Author:Philip Massinger

“The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Mean Littles Important Home Women Animal Strange Birth Creatures Female Profound Males Notion Spread Caves Innovative Giving Birth Hunted

Book:Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

Source: Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970