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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
Gold

"On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!"

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety."

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Ovid Poet
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"I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues."

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