A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~Philip Green
#quotes #philip-green #business

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
#quotes #marlene-dietrich #weakness #strength

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
#quotes #jerome-bruner #recognition

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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I don't debate with liars. ~Evo Morales
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life. ~Tim Blake Nelson
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
#quotes #franklin-d-roosevelt #life #nation

If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
#quotes #theodore-roosevelt #success #failure #trying

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation

A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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