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• A girl never knows when she might need a couple of diamonds at 10 o'clock in the morning.

  Kris Jenner

  Girl, Morning, Couple

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• Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

  Isaac Newton

  Hard Work, Fire, Done

  Remark to a dog who knocked down a candle and so set fire to some papers and 'destroyed the almost finished labours of some years', in Thomas Maude 'Wensley-Dale...a Poem' (1772) st. 23 n. (probably apocryphal. D. Gjertsen 'The Newton Handbook' (1986) p. 177

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• I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Memorable, Liberty

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.269

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• Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Dance, Upset

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.8, Random House

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• The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.

  Virginia Madsen

  Actors, Sides, Feels

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Mar 24, 2017

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• It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Time, Oil

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

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• Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Husband, Dad, Father

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

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• There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Real, Jewels, Vices

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.8937, Delphi Classics

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Men, Sea

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• My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.

  Robert Wagner

  Girl, Real, Play

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• As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Lying, Love Is, Mind

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Feb 14, 2016

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• For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Dawn, Jewelry, Rings

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1871). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.68

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• I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

  Loretta Lynn

  Lightning, Bugs, Diamond Rings

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• The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Yield, Effort, Coal

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• Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Inspiring, Jewels, Mind

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• I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Baseball, Football

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Past, Men, Midnight

  Frederick Forsyth (2011). “The Fourth Protocol”, p.9, Random House

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• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, College, Pebbles

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  Daniel Defoe

  Soul And Body, Lust, Literature

  'An Essay Upon Projects' (1697)

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• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

  John Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Cutting

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press

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• I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

  James Galway

  Thinking, Differences, Special

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• Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

  Tina Fey

  Sexy, Husband, Smart

  E! Online Interview, October 04, 2002.

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• Girl with the burning golden eyes,
  And red-bird song, and snowy throat:
  I bring you gold and silver moons,
  And diamond stars, and mists that float.
  I bring you moons and snowy clouds,
  I bring you prarie skies to-night
  To feebly praise your golden eyes
  And red-bird song, and throat so white.
  ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana"
  God wrote His loveliest poem on the day
  He made the first silver poplar tree,
  And set it high upon a pale-gold hill
  For all the new enchanted earth to see.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Girl, Song, Stars

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• Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Advice, Literature

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.104, Book Tree

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