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"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." »Confucius
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"A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections." »Chinese Proverb
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"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." »Joseph Roux
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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things." »Pierce Harris
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"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain." »Unknown
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." »Oscar Wilde
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton
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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Ashley Montagu
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me." »Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph
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"A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself." »Mahabharata
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
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"Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true." »George Dennison Prentice
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"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it." »Orson Scott Card
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"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates." »Sir William Alton Jones
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"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." »Winston Churchill
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"No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage." »J. Lawton Collins
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"It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated." »Steve Jobs
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"The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug" »Eugene F. Ware
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"Often we forget to acknowledge the brilliant minds around us, in the process of impressing the small minds." »Siddharth Astir
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"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." »Salvador Dali
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"Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd." »From the I Ching
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"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." »Albert Einstein
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"Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit." »Goldoni
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense." »Douglas Noel Adams
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