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The quiet corners of quantum serenity resonate with secrets absorbed in silence, allowing us to perceive chance and certainty not as levels of experience but as invitations to witness the charisma of existence itself.
Author:
Layla Everett
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I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
Author:
Neil Young
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There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Author:
Coleman Young
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
Author:
A. Yehoshua
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'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
Author:
Tom Winnifrith
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Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
Author:
Esther Williams
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I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.
Author:
Esther Williams
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Author:
John Whittier
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We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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Everything I touch turns to gold.
Author:
Pete Waterman
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So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.
Author:
Mort Walker
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O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Author:
Virgil
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
Author:
John Updike
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Author:
Harriet Tubman
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The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
Author:
Georg Trakl
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Author:
J. Tolkien
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Love is the only gold.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
Author:
John Sutter
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I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.
Author:
Picabo Street
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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.
Author:
Jim Steinman
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Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Author:
Edmund Spenser
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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Author:
Sophocles
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As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
Author:
Peter Snell
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Author:
Adam Smith
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Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
Author:
Frank Shorter
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I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
Author:
Earl Scruggs
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.
Author:
Michael Schenker
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Author:
George Santayana
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Author:
Carlos Santana
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.
Author:
Jeffrey Sachs
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That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
Author:
Angela Ruggiero
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The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
Author:
Wilma Rudolph
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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
Author:
John Robinson
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Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
Author:
John Robinson
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When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
Author:
John Robinson
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Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
Author:
John Robinson
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There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.
Author:
John Robinson
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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Author:
Antoine Rivarol
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Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
Author:
David Ricardo
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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
Author:
David Ricardo
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Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
Author:
David Ricardo
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When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
Author:
Aurelius Prudentius
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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Author:
Plato
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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Author:
Albert Pike
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My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
Author:
Michael Phelps
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I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
Author:
Ellis Peters
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Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.
Author:
Charles Perrault
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Author:
Carl Perkins
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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Author:
Claiborne Pell
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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Author:
Jean Paul
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The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.
Author:
Carly Patterson
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Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
Author:
Joseph Parry
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Author:
Paracelsus
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Author:
Paracelsus
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Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Author:
Jesse Owens
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The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Author:
Jesse Owens
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If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
Author:
Patton Oswalt
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It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Author:
Dan O'Brien
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
Author:
Dan O'Brien
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Author:
Dan O'Brien
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You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.
Author:
Lennart Nilsson
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It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
Author:
John Nicolay
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We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic.
Author:
C. Myers
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I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
Author:
Alison Moyet
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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Author:
John Motley
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Author:
Samuel Morison
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Author:
Thomas More
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The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
Author:
John Moody
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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
Author:
John Moody
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Author:
Matthew Modine
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Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
Author:
Audrey Meadows
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Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
Author:
Jim McKay
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As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.
Author:
John McGinley
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As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.
Author:
John Mason
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Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
Author:
William Marston
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Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Author:
Alfred Marshall
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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
Author:
Archibald MacLeish
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Author:
Martin Luther
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Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
Author:
Alain Lille
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Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.
Author:
Greg LeMond
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An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
Author:
Mary Lease
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Author:
David Lawrence
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
Author:
Olga Korbut
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I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.
Author:
Billy Koch
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Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
Author:
Evel Knievel
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We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
Author:
Joseph Kennedy
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
Author:
John Keats
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We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
Author:
Denis Kearney
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As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.
Author:
Dean Kamen
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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
Author:
Michael Johnson
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The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
Author:
John Jakes
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The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
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I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
Author:
LL J
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As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
Author:
Richard Hovey
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The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Author:
Marjorie Holmes
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Author:
Abraham Heschel
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As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
Author:
Eric Heiden
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Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
Author:
Eric Heiden
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
Author:
Zahi Hawass
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
Author:
W. Harriman
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You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
Author:
Ben Harper
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I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
Author:
Scott Hamilton
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When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
Author:
Scott Hamilton
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I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
Author:
Dorothy Hamill
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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Author:
Sammy Hagar
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Author:
Gary Gygax
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
Author:
Alan Greenspan
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
Author:
Alan Greenspan
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What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
Author:
James Grainger
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Author:
Martha Graham
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Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
Author:
Joe Gold
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They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.
Author:
Joe Gold
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
Author:
Germanicus
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The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
Author:
Mitch Gaylord
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Author:
Garet Garrett
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Author:
Dan Gable
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Author:
R. Fuller
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As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.
Author:
John Frusciante
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
Author:
Bryan Ferry
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Author:
Euripides
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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Author:
Euripides
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.
Author:
Michael East
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If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.
Author:
Don Dokken
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It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.
Author:
Cory Doctorow
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I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
Author:
Celine Dion
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A mask of gold hides all deformities.
Author:
Thomas Dekker
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Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
Author:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
Author:
Antonio Davis
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
Author:
Rene Daumal
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
Author:
Roald Dahl
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My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
Author:
Betty Cuthbert
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We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
Author:
Hernando Cortez
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Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
Author:
Scott Cook
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Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Author:
Christopher Columbus
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But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Author:
Christopher Columbus
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To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.
Author:
Sebastian Coe
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
Author:
C. Cherryh
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I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll
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But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
Author:
Will Carleton
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Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Author:
Tim Cahill
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Author:
Richard Burton
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Author:
John Burroughs
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Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
Author:
Inge Bruijn
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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Author:
Rita Brown
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
Author:
Gwendolyn Brooks
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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
Author:
Claude Bristol
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People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
Author:
Sonny Bono
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Author:
Karen Black
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Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
Author:
Isabella Bird
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Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Author:
Jeff Bezos
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Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.
Author:
Shelley Berman
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Author:
Ludwig Beethoven
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I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
Author:
Victoria Beckham
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
Author:
Cecil Beaton
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And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.
Author:
John Barbour
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I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
Author:
George Banks
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Author:
Aristotle
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I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.
Author:
Alexis Arguello
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A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
Author:
Charles Anthon
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You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me.
Author:
Kurt Angle
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I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Author:
Woody Allen
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
Author:
Lord Acton
