Quote by James Thurber
The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote

The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. – James Thurber

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Risk
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybodys guess. – James Thurber

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Future
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald – all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. – Pliny, about the opal

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Jewelry

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. – Mae West

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Jewelry
[T]he sapphire… is a concentration of azure. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875, translated from French

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Jewelry

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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. – Henri Bergson

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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. – Clayton Christensen

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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesnt know what war is except from television. – Sophia Loren

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