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"She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore."
"I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that."
"I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor."
"Never cast pearls before swine."
"Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls."
"We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition."
"No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee."
"Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base."
"The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone."
"Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls."
