"Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold."
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"Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish."
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"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing."
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"A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold."
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"DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush."
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"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour."
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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
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"The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain."
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"If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf."
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"What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while."
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"The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top."
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"I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew."
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"Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself."
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"I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold."
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"These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies."
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"Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace."
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"True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths."
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"I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say, 'Well, old Charlie was out in the field playing the big brass tuba on the day it rained gold.' A lot of people have become rich lately who were playing the tuba on the day it rained gold."
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"The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat."
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"So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back."
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