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• My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

  Tommy Douglas

  Dream, People, Canada

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• I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Husband, Careers, House

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• There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self Esteem, Home, Self Respect

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• It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Ignorant, Would Be, Body

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• God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

  A. B. Simpson

  Kings, Dark, Palaces

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• I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

  Janelle Monae

  Rich, Enjoy, Feathers

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• I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

  Ezra Miller

  New York, Stars, Vintage

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• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  Tammin Sursok

  Listening, Dido, Stones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  Karen Mills

  President, Saws, Enormous

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• Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Mules

  Song: Visions Of Johanna, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  Gary Oldman

  Mistake, America, Envy

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

  Norman Bethune

  Luxury, Medicine, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Mind, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1893). “Natural history of intellect and other papers”

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• I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

  Charles Duke

  Ocean, Clouds, Sight

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• We're not lowly sinners, we're not worthless beings. We are something jewel-like and beautiful.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Sinner, Worthless

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, People, Crowns

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

  Isaac Watts

  Certain, Observation

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• What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

  Felicia Hemans

  War, Sea, Shrines

  Felicia Hemans (1850). “Records of Woman, with Other Poems”, p.135, University Press of Kentucky

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• The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

  John Alfred Langford

  Learning, Decay

  John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Cake, Rocks, Blue

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• And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

  Gerald Massey

  Stars, Dark, Light

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.14

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• Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Ideas, Leader

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• It will be full of precious stones and jewels, and best of all, full of precious souls!-Immortal souls, saved souls that love Jesus and that you won to the Lord.

  David Berg

  Jesus, Precious Stones, Soul

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• O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

  William Shakespeare

  Night, True Beauty, Romeo And Juliet Love

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Character, Sea

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caribbean: A Novel”, p.24, Dial Press

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