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a wild goose never laid a tame egg

Something will not be spontaneously different from that which came before. The phrase is used to describe things that are determined by nature and the environment, or else inherited from the generation before. We must never presume that humanity will be without violence; after all, a wild goose never laid a tame egg.
See also: egg, goose, laid, never, wild
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To be clear, Tame Impaia is not actually the last rock band in the world, but it sometimes feels that way.
Tame Impala: as rock culture stagnates, one of its greatest bands keeps getting bigger
Parkhouse-Thomas, 42, of Monks Close, Pyle, was sentenced to 18 months in jail after admitting perverting the course of justice by giving a false account to police about what happened on the night Mr Tame died.
Life for man who pushed love rival down stairs
She had been charged jointly with Syms of murdering Mr Tame, but the charge against her was dropped the day before the trial began.
Man jailed for life over murder of his love rival
Prior to this new role, Tame served as the Finance Director of Babcock International.
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Tame in person as well as in name, frontman Kevin Parker - the brainchild of the Tame Impala project - may appear awkwardly reticent when addressing the thronging faithful, but put a guitar over his shoulder and he'll blaze a soaring trail that will transcend the mere fretboard of his instrument to achieve something that's utterly stratospheric.
Psychedelic spell is cast
En este ano, la revista Tame obtuvo su registro ISSN, lo cual para nosotros en un paso mas rumbo a la consolidacion.
Primer aniversario
They thought that I was a bit tame and not real that having sex with a man is the one thing missing from Stoddard's pansexual gonzo journalism.
Working boy: Premier New York City sex columnist Grant Stoddard explored America's sexual underworld and lived to tell about it
The most electable candidate, it turns out, is simply the candidate best able to tame the Freak Show.
Last woman standing: would presidential candidate Hillary Clinton be destroyed by today's vicious media, or is she the only Democrat who can survive it?
The family group Fern lives in knows about horses: they are hunted and eaten; no one has thought to tame them.
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TAME of Ecuador took delivery of a 104-seat Embraer 190.
Aircraft News - Latin America / Caribbean
Chris R Tame was not in the conventional sense left or right wing, disliking nationalised industries, but recognising the evils in the private conglomerates which replaced them.
OBITUARY: Chris R Tame
Now In Spanish: Tame the Pool Monster, Dome el Monstruo de la Piscina.
Tame the Pool Monster, Spanish translation
The TAME Melaleuca Project was created in 2001 by the Agricultural Research Service.
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Ecuadorian state airline TAME Linea Aerea del Ecuador has signed a letter of intent with Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer for seven of its EMBRAER 170/190 regional jets.
Ecuador's TAME to acquire seven Embraer aircraft
Researchers have often given Egyptians living around 4,000 years ago credit for having first domesticated wildcats and then bred the tame felines.
New find pushes back origin of tamed felines
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