Claude M. Bristol Quotes
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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.
Ed Balls
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The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.
Dan Webster
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.
Magdalena Neuner
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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
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
Ze Frank
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Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
Oscar Hijuelos
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Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
Gabby Douglas
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
Saint Ambrose
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The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
Peter Diamandis
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The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.
Dennis Holme Robertson
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I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.
R. S. Thomas
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If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.
Anne Bradstreet
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Billy Sunday
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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
Claude M. Bristol
