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  • Robert Leighton Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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  • Horace Mann 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
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Horace Mann Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Joseph Roux A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Bob Diamond Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Barbara L. Diamond Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.
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  • Andreas Capellanus Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Anita Loos I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Bob Diamond If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Bob Diamond In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Bob Diamond Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Horace Mann 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.
    A Beautiful Thought… we clip from an exchange paper Universalist Union (16 March 1844)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bob Diamond My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • William R. Alger Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Bob Diamond Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Diamond The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bob Diamond When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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