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• At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Wall, Mind, Silver

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• That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Beautiful, Banality, Turns

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• Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Children, Women

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

  Steve Martin

  Mother, Dream, Glasses

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:
  Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Black

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.277

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• It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Risk, Trouble

  1888 From a letter to his brother Theo, early Oct.

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• What strikes the oyster shell
  doesn't damage the pearl.

  Rumi

  Oysters, Shells, Damage

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

  Stephen King

  Oysters, Dabs, Shells

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Truth, Heart

  Robert Browning (2012). “Browning's Shorter Poems”, p.95, tredition

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• After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Believe, Home, Simple

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.369, e-artnow

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• Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Struggle, Perfect, Aging

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men"”, p.121, Booklassic

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• We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

  Fred Thompson

  Waiting, Age, Information

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• The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Soul, Hazards

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.272, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  Dan Rather

  War, Years, America

  "A History Lesson" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live

  Kristen Ashley

  Play, Jam, Finished

  Kristen Ashley (2011). “Rock Chick”, p.10, Rock Chick LLC

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• The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

  James Lafferty

  Art, Glasses, Lines

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• From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Advertising, Wonderful, Harbors

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• Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

  John Balguy

  Happiness, Wise, Inner Peace

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• I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

  Winifred Mary Letts

  Heart, Men, Passing By

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• Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold. But it's value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold is cold and lifeless, it can neither see nor hear. And in time of trouble, it is powerless to cheer. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

  Natalie

  Friendship, Cheer, True Friend

  "Boarding House Blues". "Compass" with Geraldine Doogue, www.abc.net.au. February 08, 2004.

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• My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'

  Nathan Lane

  Brother, Thinking, Play

  "Lane can't stop his career or his repartee". Ron Weiskind, Mobile Register, December 21, 1997.

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• U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Important, Battle

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• On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.

  Tori Murden

  Ocean, June, Sky

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• The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

  Diane Watson

  Government, Warning, Dots

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• Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

  Randall Jarrell

  Oysters

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.181, University of Chicago Press

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