Quotes with gold-mining

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  • Horace Gold will be slave or master.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Thomas Hood Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • Democritus Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
    Democritus
    Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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  • Barbara Castle He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
    Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
    Roman Christian poet
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  • William Shakespeare I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Bella Thorne I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Woody Allen I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bianca Walkden If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.
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  • Jesse Owens If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Billy Bragg In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
    Monetary Reform (1924) , p. 172
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Boris Yeltsin It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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