Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
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Silver
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Sandra Lee
Chef
"You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring"
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"Wisdom is better than silver and gold"
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver."
Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity."
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"Every silver lining has a touch of grey."
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"The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness."
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"I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions."
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"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
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"Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?"
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"Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life."
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"The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide."
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"Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag."
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"Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!"
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"Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted."
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"And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver."
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"You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair"
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"The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade."
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"The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through."
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"So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living."
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"Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly."
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"There's the silver lining I've been looking for."
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"I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall."
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"Not only did Judas sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; he also sold himself."
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"Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities."
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