Gold Quotes - Page 38

• I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

  Robert Hunter

  Jewels, Pay, Way

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests.

  Robert Gilpin

  Dream, Powerful, Impact

  "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

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• What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Heart, Games, Trying

  Interview with Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Lying, Faces, Rubies

  "Islamic Figure In New Tirade Against Jews" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.

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• If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

  B. W. Powe

  Dream, Lasts, Turns

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

  William Morley Punshon

  Alchemist, Patient, Beats

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 367), 1895.

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• I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.

  James Jeffrey Roche

  Handsome, Silver, Barrels

  James Jeffrey Roche, “Contentment”

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

  Flora Thompson

  Sunshine, Purple, Yellow

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.

  Flora Thompson

  Butterfly, Thinking, Men

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. February Chapter, 1986.

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• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.

  Leo Ryan

  Responsibility, America, Design

  "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal". United States Congress, H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159, November 18, 1983.

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• As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues.

  Leo Ryan

  Honor, Rumor, Typical

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• Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Fearless, Size, Embrace

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• People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

  Anna Benson

  People, Gold Digger, Diamond

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• Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophical, Hands, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Lost

  George Herbert, John N. Wall (1981). “The Country Parson ; The Temple”, p.215, Paulist Press

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• I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.

  David Stockman

  Water, Batteries, Flashlights

  "David Stockman: U.S. Is in 'Race to the Fiscal Bottom'". Interview with Jennifer Depaul, www.thefiscaltimes.com. October 6, 2010.

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• AKG controls the heart of one of Ghana's most exciting new gold belts.

  Scott Wright

  Heart, Ghana, Belts

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• TMM is among the best of low-cost gold producers with strong longevity.

  Scott Wright

  Strong, Cost, Lows

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• Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.

  Ralph Marston

  Winning, Quests, Rewards

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• The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old Milwaukee.

  Bill Maher

  Iraq, President, Milwaukee

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• Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

  Nigel Starmer-Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Lasts

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• During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Ugly

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• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Flower, Pride

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

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• Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

  Alexander Pope

  Yellow, Lakes, Race

  Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Horse, Grandmother

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.758, Modern Library

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