"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

Gold, Praise, Value

"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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"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

Dorothy Hamill, American Athlete

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"There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation."

John Buchanan Robinson, American Politician

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"The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold."

Carly Patterson, American Athlete

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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"

Charles Anthon, American Writer

Gold, State

"Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?"

Eric Heiden, American Athlete

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"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."

Aurelius Prudentius, Roman Poet

Gold, Hunger

"When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package."

Sammy Hagar, American Musician

Gold, Road

"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."

Isabella Bird, English Writer

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

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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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"Don't fight forces, use them."

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

"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."

"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

"There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation."

"The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold."

"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"

"Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?"

"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."

"When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package."

"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."

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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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Don't fight forces, use them."

"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."

"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."