"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet

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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."

John Keats, English Poet

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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."

Mitch Gaylord, American Athlete

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"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."

Vivienne Westwood, English Designer

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"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."

Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist

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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."

Don Dokken, German Musician

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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."

Earl Scruggs, American Musician

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Jonathan Carroll, American Author

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"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."

Mystery

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

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"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."

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"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."

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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

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