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• As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

  Smokey Robinson

  Car, Fur, Stuff

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• Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.

  Mark Nepo

  Light, Broken, Bottles

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.24, Conari Press

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• I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

  Mark Munoz

  Adversity, Thinking, Dust

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• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

  Edward Zwick

  Children, Heart, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all

  Claudia Black

  Running, Ideas, My Boyfriend

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Jewels, Curiosity

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• All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

  Eva Gabor

  Girl, Simple, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Too Much, Pebbles, Polish

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• The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Perfection, Grace

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• I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Goal, Trying, Coal

  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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• Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

  Victor Hugo

  Female, Pebbles, Lovers

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• Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Children, Mean

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Real, Joy

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• A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Lying, Stories

  Charles R. Swindoll (2011). “Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Brother, Wall, Flower

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.981, Bantam

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• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Acceptance, Self, Jewels

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

  Minnie Driver

  Years, Exception To The Rule, Dating

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• Its diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

  Jolene Blalock

  Cheesy, Cheese, Pockets

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• Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

  Evel Knievel

  Country, War, People

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• I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

  Clara Schumann

  Love, Inspiring, Horse

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• One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.

  Vincent de Paul

  Beautiful, Mountain, Done

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• If you buy a Cartier ring you want people to know it is a Cartier ring or a diamond, or a piece of art that's giving an emotion - then people read it and say, "wow that's really amazing". With prêt-à-porter you see people in the street, in a club, in a restaurant or whatever, and you think, "Oh my god, he's wearing my trousers!" In a way it's more open - people can put together the way they want - mixed with other designers.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Pain, Laughter

  "The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

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• Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she was doing, and that which she did was for my protection and for love of my person. Her place remains at my side or against my feet when I lie abed.

  Isaac Newton

  Dog, Lying, Feet

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