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Alan Cohen Author
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"Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are."

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Reggie Miller Basketball Player
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"I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans.... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold."

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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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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."

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Marlene Dietrich Actress, Singer
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"Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements."

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings."

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Omar Khayyam Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
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"The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold."

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