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Your Quotes for 14 August 2005 - Treasure

A long-time reader requested quotes on Treasure, and it seemed fitting as a couple of true treasures of our world were unveiled on this day in history. In 1511 Michelangelo's ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was unveiled for the first time, and the Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) was completed on this day in 1880.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
     - Anthony J. D'Angelo

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
     - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
     - Siddhartha Gautama, 563 - 483 BC

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
     - George Sand, 1804 - 1876

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
     - Siddhartha Gautama, 563 - 483 BC

Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it.
     - George Merck

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