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You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.

~Anne Donovan

Topics: Anymore Go Gold Gold Medal Just Medal Pick Up You

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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Arabia Back Chain Chains Drawer Excite Fairy Fairy Tales Feather Find Give Gold Great India Knot Lighter Linked Me Might Mother Myths Shiny Smell Sweaty Tales Than Thin Tight Weight World Would You

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Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Been Clean Controlled Diamonds Gold Hallmark Long Nice Rich Water

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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

~Antoine Rivarol

Topics: Clay Gold Great Like Souls Sun Wax Which

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I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

~Anton Du Beke

Topics: About Ballroom Bit Fun Gold Latin Mess Never Open Ridiculous Shirt Tails Tight Trousers Waist You

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It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

~Antonio Davis

Topics: Fool Games Gold Playing Right Right Way Way Winning You

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Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: Away Base Better Black Consider Gathered Gold Heap How Men Nearest Nor Sand Taxes Tears Than Wealth Which Who

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I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

~Apolo Ohno

Topics: Clothes Electronics Gold Jewelry Love Shop Yellow I Love

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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Accomplished Action Again Always Become Democracy Doing Done Gold Goods Must Nation Necessary Never Now One Thing Only Piled Something Thing Up

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I've won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don't know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.

~Ariane Fortin

Topics: Championship Feel Feels Gold Gold Medal How Know Medal Want Win Won World World Championship

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