„Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.“

— Ambrose Bierce

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„Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.“
— Sigmund Freud
„The times of the Birth and Passion of Christ, with such like niceties, being not material to religion, were little regarded by the Christians of the first age. They who began first to celebrate them, placed them in the cardinal periods of the year“
— Isaac Newton