"The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold"
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"The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself."
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"O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold."
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"Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure."
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"I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up."
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"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
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"It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics."
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"And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
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"The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold."
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"You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?"
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"Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn."
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"What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise."
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"Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs."
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"If I see another David Gold interview on the poor East End Jewish boy done good I'll impale myself on one of his dildos."
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"There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it"
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"No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday."
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"Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity."
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"Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold."
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"Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity."
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