A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~Jacqueline Novogratz
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~David Bailey
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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