Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change"
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Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth."
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"The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
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"I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth."
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"Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate"
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"Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something."
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"Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!"
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"From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written."
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"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold"
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"Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?"
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"Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold"
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"The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much."
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"There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries."
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"Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky."
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"We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only."
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"I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth."
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"I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down."
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"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore."
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"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."
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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."
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"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
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"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."
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