"What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue."
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"People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold."
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"It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same."
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"Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase"
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"... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'"
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"I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless."
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"A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes."
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"I've workshopped Medea where I have goddesses, and I'm naked onstage and painted gold, and talking in tongues, and the goddesses come and dress me, and Hecate arrives and fills me with the power to go kill the children so I can send them to the afterlife and do this for all women. They've never done a Medea like that. They're cheating themselves by not letting me do these roles."
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"Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it."
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"Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!"
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"Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead."
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"Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing"
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"If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves."
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"gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams."
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"May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith."
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"I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams."
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"The magic of property turns sand to gold."
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"To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!"
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"The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!"
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"The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood."
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