"Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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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'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

Woody Allen, American Director

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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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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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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."

Jesse Owens, American Athlete

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"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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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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"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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"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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"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

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"Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery."

Death

"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern."

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"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."

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"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

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"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

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"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

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"God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."

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"Don't fight forces, use them."

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