A Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
American - President
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Edward Young

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

Edward Young

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

Leonard Cohen

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

John Eldredge

Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.

Gabrielle Zevin

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

John Cleese

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Jodie Foster

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Studs Terkel

You were born original don't die a copy

Ben Mikaelsen

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Studs Terkel

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Martin Heidegger

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

Alistair Maclean

Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.

Janet Mock

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Pietro Aretino

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