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• In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Passion, Ends

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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• Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.

  Fred Reichheld

  Book, Names, Differences

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• It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

  Alan Bennett

  Black, Frost, Wonderful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Poor, Substitutes, Stock Exchange

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.137, Routledge

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• The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen.

  Aphex Twin

  People, Fans, Different

  "Strange Visitor: A Conversation With Aphex Twin" by Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. 2014.

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• Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

  Johnny Miller

  Golf, Genius, Courses

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• The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.

  Thomas R. Insel

  Brain, Information, Neuroscience

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• The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Race, Age, Energy

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• Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.

  Roger Miller

  Junk, Takeovers, Hostile

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• When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Hbo, Long, Comedian

  "Gabriel Iglesias Interview — Two Fluffy Men Talk Comedy". Interview with Josh Board, fox5sandiego.com. July 26, 2014.

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• The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

  Eric Topol

  Heart, Medicine, Long

  "Will you have a heart attack? New test can possibly predict", www.eurekalert.org. March 21, 2012.

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• Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Littles, Facts

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• It was so much fun to have my very first TV (performance) be the holy grail of comedy, in my opinion. I was the guy from CHiPs and then I was Grizzly Adams. It was hysterical. We got to make out. It was really crazy, fun television.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Fun, Crazy, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it.

  Gerry Lopez

  Amazon, Watches, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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• Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

  Douglas Crockford

  Engineering, Reuse, Software

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• The goal was to create a mood, an atmosphere, and I think we have achieved that. We wanted people to not only get in touch with this character but also with themselves [in Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail].

  Evan Jacobs

  Character, Thinking, Goal

  Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com

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• In the case of the tip rule, Donald Trump has delivered a huge gift to the owners of big chain restaurants, for whom getting their hands on workers' tips has been a holy grail for a very long time. In Donald Trump, they finally found a president who will do their bidding.

  Heidi Shierholz

  Long, President, Holy

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• The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.

  Evan Jacobs

  Cutting, Phones, Finals

  Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com

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• I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.

  Christoffer Boe

  Mistake, Thinking, Next Week

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• What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.

  Stephen Birmingham

  Like Love, Rewards, Assuming

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• Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Workout, Tired, Sleep

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• People tweet me all the time and tell me how much they love it, how they can't wait for the show to come back on, that they're addicted to the show. So that's really rewarding. As an artist, we're all looking for that connection to an audience and when you find people as diehard as our fans are - it's sort of like finding the holy grail.

  Glen Mazzara

  Artist, People, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves you feeling so free you’ll want to do cartwheels on the beach. But don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this message. Look no further for an easeful path to enlightenment infused with rapture and hope, which comes as much needed medicine for the soul.

  Lissa Rankin

  Beach, Book, Medicine

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• Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  People, Want, Results

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Quests, Stones

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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