I don't know how old I am because the goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven
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My birth certificate read Dorothy May Kinnicutt, but, lest you think that the name Sister has any ecclesiastical significance, let me hasten to point out that it was immediately hung on me by my three-year-old brother, Frankie.
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No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.
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God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God's cof...
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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Deuteronomy 24:1:
If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house
(NIV)
WHEN A man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house
(AMP)
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
(KJV)
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Matthew 5:31:
'It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.''
(NIV)
It has also been said, Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.
(AMP)
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
(KJV)
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