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• You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

  Martin Buber

  Heaven, Rakes, Delight

  Martin Buber (2013). “Tales of the Hasidim”, p.817, Schocken

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• I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.

  James Patterson

  Military, War, Eye

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.137, Random House

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• Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Vision, Would Be

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  Jack Irons

  Musician, Jam, Radio

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• After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

  Jack Adams

  Fog, Battle, Week

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• For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

  Christopher Smart

  Sea

  'Jubilate Agno' Fragment B, l. 30

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• Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which I belong to man, that by which I amable to reach after God; and He has given to me this pearl of great  price. It is an immortal treasure; it is mine, it is His, and no man shall pluck it out of His hand.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Men, Hands, Personality

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.307

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• Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Blood, Sirens, Revolution

  Joe Eszterhas (1974). “Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse”

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• Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

  Marsha Blackburn

  War, President, Middle East

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• Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

  David Suzuki

  Thinking, Who I Am, Events

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• They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

  Sylvia Plath

  Worms, Sticky, Picks

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.

  Karel Capek

  Ocean, Adventure, Land

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• I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Real, About Yourself, Not Afraid

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• For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

  Gianni Versace

  Summer, Mother, Eye

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

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• My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Each Day, Path

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• The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Water, Swim

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.1, Random House

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• She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

  Virginia Woolf

  Singing, Necklaces, Parks

  "Orlando (Annotated): A Biography".

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
  is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past.
  The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
  you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Past, Offering

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• 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'

  Zhuangzi

  Stars, Moon, Jewels

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• ...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

  Anita Desai

  Moon, Garden, Risk

  Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Light, Earth

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

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• I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.

  Rumi

  Healing, Heart, Eye

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• Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Military, Journey, Japan

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• The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Truth, Mean, Understanding

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• There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Oysters, Use, Aces

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Imaginary crimes”, Penguin Group USA

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