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“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”

Made Values Literature Born Poor Poverty Fate Taught True Value

Author:Anatole France

“You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.”

Way Games Process Realizing Born Class Taught Late Subtle

Book:Lena

Source: Lena

“The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?”

Ideas Values Black Born Taught Excellence Segregation

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born”

Ifs Thinking Way Has Beens Joy Nature Born Natural Consciousness Environment Missing Taught Way Of Thinking Sensory Natural Environment Life Wisdom Missing Out Reconnecting

Author:Michael J Cohen

“I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.”

Writing Problem Father Born Taught Mad London Driven Suspects Parting Schooling Dyslexic

Author:Tanith Lee

“You're wrong! That's not why Kagome was born! Kagome taught me how to smile, how to believe in people! Kagome was the reason I could make friends and rely on those friends! To shed tears for others, to understand true strength and kindness…They’re all things I learned from Kagome! Kagome was born to meet me! And I was born for her!”

People Believe Reason Born Kindness Tears Taught All Things Rely Shed True Strength Inuyasha Kagome

Author:Rumiko Takahashi

“Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.”

Soul States Spirit Fall Born Sin Lord Forever Taught Holy Late Praise Saviour Taught Us Baptized

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear.”

World May Fear Born Taught Fearlessness

Author:Robin Sharma

“One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.”

Firsts School Born Taught Baby Breaths Catholic Sinner Catholic School

Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”

People Way Stills Mother Desire Girl Born My Own Steps Generations Taught Daughter Opposites Misery Raised Chinese My Daughter Bitterness Up And Down Stairs

Author:Amy Tan

“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.”

Has Beens Moments Remember Sex Parent Born Loneliness Taught Anxiety Jokes Roots Opposites Forgotten Separation Attachment Dread Recalls Infant Toilets Abandonment Taught Us

Author:Jo Coudert

“Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.”

Kids Born Taught Bully

Author:Matt Bomer

“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.”

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.”

“Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic. So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults.”

People Littles Christian Three Born Hours Stupid Taught Involved Band Conversation Edges Aesthetic Punk Outsiders Cult Petty Get Involved Ghetto Born Again Idiotic Straight Edge

Author:Jesse Michaels

“The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.”

Home School Born Differences Church Knowing Taught Color Baby Gender Mosques Synagogue

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. The head and body - you know, a baby's born inside a woman's stomach, you know all that. But to watch this thing come out and fight for life, yo, and to see the woman's risking her life at the same time this thing is fighting for life, you know what I mean?”

Knows Mean Body Fighting Born Watches Taught Baby Lessons Stomach Womb

Author:RZA

“When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Real Joy Values Grows Understanding Born Creative Taught Planets Adventure Expression Illusion Harmony Reaching Creative Expression

Author:Richard Bach

“My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.”

School Born Class Taught Dad My Dad Be Confident Upper Class Glasgow

Author:Rankin

“I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.”

Voice Born Taught Singing My Friends Rain Sight Genes Singing In The Rain

Author:Chris Burke

“My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.”

Way Wells Play Born Player Taught Dad Band Late Musician Standards Areas Jazz My Dad Come Up Radio Active Fantastic Piano Tunes Boston Trumpets

Author:Chick Corea

“There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.”

“I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.”

People Men World Way Has Beens Made Eye Faces Fighting Born Church Study Taught Judging Pride Gay Pure Deny Absurd Damn Ashamed Preaching Stigma Gay People Bragging Tag Born This Way

Author:Chavela Vargas

“You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.”

Values Strong Nations Born Community Taught Strong Family Strong Community Strong Values

Author:Marco Rubio

“Sex doesn't have to be taught. It's something most of us are born with.”

Sex Born Taught

Author:Pat Paulsen

“I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time. He taught His gospel and was tried. He suffered and was crucified and resurrected on the third day. He, like His Father, has a body of flesh and bone. He made His Atonement. Of Him I bear witness. Of Him I am a witness.”

Knows Made Body Father Jesus Christ Born Taught Son Bears Jesus Christ Thirds Bones Flesh Witness Our Father Atonement Joseph Smith

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.”

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions

“If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Reason Action Christian Christ Born Answers Mankind Taught Difficulty Atheist Greek Anticipate Logos

Author:Justin Martyr

“The one who plays this game the best is Iniesta: he knows exactly when to go forward and when to drop back. He picks the right moment to do everything: when to dribble, when to speed things up and when to slow things down. And I think that's the only thing that can't be taught or bought. You can learn how to shoot and how to control the ball, but being aware of everything that's happening out on the pitch - that's something you're either born with or you're not.”

Thinking Knows Play Moments Games Born Taught Happenings Picks Balls Down And Speed Right Moment Dribble Iniesta

Author:Juan Roman Riquelme

“Genius must be born, it can't be taught.”

Born Taught Genius

Author:John Dryden

“The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.”

Way Trying I Can Different Whole Certain Born Taught Whole Life Therapy Simplest

Author:Billy Corgan

“I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.”

Said Moments Hate Born Talking Taught My Friends Palestinian Israeli

Author:Jill Soloway

“I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories.”

Thinking World Stories Moving Parent Born Too Much Identity Taught Integrity Gender Narrative Gender Identity Etcetera

Author:Melissa Febos