"Born of blood and tribulation"
— Gangs of New York
"Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content
to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register
of God, not in the record of man."
— Sir Thomas Browne
The part of the above quotation preceding the first comma may be
found, among other places, in a New York Times piece published
online on August 7, 2012. See also this journal on that date.