Quotes with gold-mining

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  • Alfred Marshall Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Virgil Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Archibald Macleish Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Bob Marley Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Andreas Capellanus Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Alan Cohen 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.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Cate Campbell Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Sextus Propertius Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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  • Samuel Johnson Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Seneca Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Lady Blessington Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Cowley Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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