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writing numbers gold
Charles Caleb Colton Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
writing language nonsense
Charles Caleb Colton It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
Charles Caleb Colton He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
Charles Caleb Colton There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
Charles Caleb Colton We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
Charles Caleb Colton The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
numbers endurance vices
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numbers sides smallest
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numbers mind neurons
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numbers needs credit
Alan Greenspan The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.
numbers clouds united-states
Alan Greenspan Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
numbers generations todays-generation
Alan Greenspan The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
numbers people problem
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numbers generations christianity
Aiden Wilson Tozer In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
numbers alternatives grit
Chris Christie You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.
gold noble affliction
Charles Caleb Colton Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
gold bills sailor
Alan Watts A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
gold derivatives commodity
Alan Greenspan Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
gold paper demand
Alan Greenspan Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
gold dollars remember
Alan Greenspan Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
gold world accepted
Alan Greenspan Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
gold
China Mieville Anything for gold and experience.
gold dirt diamond
Eartha Kitt I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
golden living-my-life live-and-let-live
Dean Cain I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.