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Robert Ringer In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.
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Sarah Shahi My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.
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Zaha Hadid I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.
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Rowan Atkinson Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
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Khalil Gibran Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Hedy Lamarr I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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Ludwig van Beethoven A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
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Lord Chesterfield Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
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Khalil Gibran Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Lewis Black Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.
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Charlie Munger We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
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Benjamin Disraeli The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
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Walter Savage Landor As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Erasmus Darwin E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.
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Audrey Tautou What we wear is the shell of who we are.
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C. S. Lewis Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?
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Charlie Munger Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].
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Bettie Page Young women say I helped them come out of their shells
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Gaston Bachelard Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Eva Zeisel My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
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Cassandra Clare There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.