Quotes with gold-mining

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  • Joseph Joubert Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Butler Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Moulton Marston Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
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  • Ludwig van Beethoven Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Bill Bailey So go into your local branch of UBS, and say I'd like to open an account please., and when they say What with? take out a loud hailer and say NAZI GOLD! Just like you did!
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bee Wilson Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Burton Temperance is a bridle of gold.
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  • Ann Macbeth Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Robert Graves The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Campbell Newman The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Benigno Aquino III The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The proof of gold is fire...
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • C. Venkata Raman The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored-up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.
    C. Venkata Raman
    Indian physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1888 - 1970)
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  • Albert Pike The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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