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Gold Quotes
From rush-era history to turning mishaps into gold.
Gold shows up here in wildly different forms — the literal 19th-century Gold Rush that helped build towns like Sacramento, gold-toned '60s fashion palettes, and the shimmer of ancient gilded artifacts. See also our Golden quotes for a closer look at the color itself.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
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In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.
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Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.
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If you are looking for a hedge for potential inflation for the future and have a longer term view, then gold is still a good bet.
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I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
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The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
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The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
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When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy hats come to mind.
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It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
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Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
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