"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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"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

Gold, Praise, Value

"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."

Antoine Rivarol, French Journalist

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"You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me."

Kurt Angle, American Wrestler

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"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."

Dan O'Brien, American Athlete

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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."

Tim Cahill, Australian Athlete

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"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."

David Ricardo, British Economist

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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me."

Picabo Street, American Athlete

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"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."

David Ricardo, British Economist

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"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."

Alain de Lille, French Theologian

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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."

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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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"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."

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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."

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"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."

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

"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."

"You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me."

"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."

"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."

"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

"I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me."

"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."

"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."

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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."

"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."

"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."

"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."

"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."

"I can't afford a whole new set of enemies."

"What is elegance? Soap and water!"

"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."

"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."

"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."