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• But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mother, Treasure, Scarlet

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Clueless, Years

  "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Rocks, Jewels, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25

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• Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Air, Color, Wings

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• The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Long, Remember

  Kevin Brockmeier (2006). “The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage

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• There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

  Rumi

  Love, Religious, Kissing

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• I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Men, Wanted, Knows

  Tracy Chevalier (2012). “Tracy Chevalier 3-Book Collection: Girl With a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures, Falling Angels”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same spoken of by the Lord and found in the Pearl of Great Price: "For behold, this is my work and my glory-to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." May we ever remember that the mantle of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a cloak of comfort but rather a robe of responsibility. Our duty, in addition to saving ourselves, is to guide others to the celestial kingdom of God.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Real, Responsibility

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• Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Sea, Grace

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.92, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Lingerie has gotten really cute, with little booty underwear and the cute little bras. They've gotten really detailed. I saw one the other day with little baby pearls on the strap. I had to have it.

  Britney Spears

  Cute, Baby, Littles

  "Britney: No Nude Scenes". www.imdb.com. February 13, 2002.

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• Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

  William Somervile

  Purple, Sky, Way

  "The Chace" by William Somervile, (Bk. II, line 79), 1735.

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• Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.

  Chad Smith

  Keys, Play, Quality

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• The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Successful

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

  Isaac McLellan

  Life, Rich, Tombs

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

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• The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

  Chuichi Nagumo

  War, Navy, Ships

  "American Caesar". Book by William Manchester, p. 195, 1978.

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• Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

  Anna Quindlen

  Individuality, Sometimes, Stereotype

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• Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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• Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

  Aurangzeb

  Brother, Congratulations, Writing

  "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.

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• It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.

  Thomas Crum

  Views, Creating, Conflict

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• I am not gay, I just like pearls.

  Julian Eltinge

  Gay

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• And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Jam, Cobain

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• Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

  Margaret Laurence

  Real, Heaven, Gold

  1964 The Stone Angel, ch.4.

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• The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

  Heinrich Heine

  Children, Artist, Suffering

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.119

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• I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

  Clive James

  Wish, Hollywood, Saws

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