Quotes with gold-mining

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  • John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Molière Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Burnie Burns 'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Richard Burton A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Thomas Dekker A mask of gold hides all deformities.
    Thomas Dekker
    English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572 - 1632)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Butler A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carl Perkins After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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  • Bryan Ferry All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Paula Nelson Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
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  • Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bonnie Blair Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Ovid As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Carlos Slim At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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