A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ~Shirley Jones
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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