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• How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Simplicity, Quitting

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• So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

  Karl Marx

  Diamond, Chemist, Values

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

  Janet Fitch

  Lost Ones, Oysters, White

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

  Simone Weil

  Education, Order, Academic Work

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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• Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. “Try me and see.” “Maybe later, after I’ve survived Michaela.

  Nalini Singh

  Trying, Savages, Golden

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.177, Penguin

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• We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

  James Lovegrove

  Girl, Fall, Boys

  James Lovegrove (2010). “The Age of Zeus”, p.144, Solaris

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• The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

  Ai Weiwei

  Unique, Fantasy, Kind

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Value them; they are pearls of great price

  P. C. Cast

  Values

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.144, Macmillan

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• Later she sat on the ground in the forest between school and home, and spring was so bright and beautiful, the warm air touched her so tenderly, she could almost feel herself changing into a flower. Her light dress felt like petals. "I love everything," she heard herself say. "So do I," a voice answered. Pearl straightened up and looked around. No one was there.

  William Steig

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

  William Steig (2013). “The Amazing Bone”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

  Kedar Joshi

  Forgiveness, Men, Beast

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• Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Ocean, Grace, Depth

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.236

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• A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

  Michael Bay

  Directors, Want, Pressure

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

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• All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

  Mitch Daniels

  Men, Self, People

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

  Fred Wilson

  Creativity, Oysters, Needs

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• The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Life, Mother, Boys

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• The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Hands, Silence

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been given her ocean. One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back.I thought of corpses and of skeletons with pearls for eyes. I thought of mermaids with tails that flicked when they moved, like my goldfishes' tails had flicked before my goldfish had stopped moving, to lie, belly up, like Lettie, on the top of the water. I said, 'Will she be the same?

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodness, Wells, Precedence

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• Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Home, Science, Moon

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

  Kobayashi Issa

  Crush, Care, Grasshoppers

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• The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.

  T. H. White

  Beautiful, Lonely, Eye

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• But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Brother, Kindness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.151, Macmillan

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• By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Intelligent, Creating

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• Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

  Kaspar Hauser

  Gratitude, Wine, Water

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• True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.

  Anamika Mishra

  True Joy, Water, Shining

  "Anamika Mishra Interview – Too Hard to Handle Book". Interview with Nikhil Narkhede, www.writerstory.com.

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