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Zahi Hawass

"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."

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"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."

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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."

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

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"O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!"

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

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"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."

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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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"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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"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."

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

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"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."
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