A time to be born and a time to die

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A time to be born and a time to die definition


A phrase from the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes. The passage begins, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven” — that is, there is a right moment for all actions.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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