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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe."

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"Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal."

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold."

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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
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"It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?” she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. “Is there silver? Gems?” She stabbed twice more. “Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?” She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. “Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?"

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters."

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist
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"God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine."

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Jean Paul Writer
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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."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold."

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