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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."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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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."
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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."
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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
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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."
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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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."
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"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."
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"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
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"Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else."
Ethnicity
"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
Knowledge
"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."
Education
"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
Art
"Poetry is life distilled."
Life
"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Work
"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
Love
"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
People
"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
Writing
"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
Life
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