I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.
Virchand GandhiStichwörter: money gold peace heaven philosophers earth commerce india silver good-will jainism commercialization currency indian-quote exchange philosophy-of-people virchand-gandhi jains
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: knowledge wealth gold college wit emerson american-scholar
But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: gold fantasy finance rainbow
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: gold freedom libertarianism benefit
While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.
Evan MeekinsStichwörter: love gold fantasy fiction value importance young-adult young-adult-fiction fantasy-fiction young-adult-fantasy
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
John PiperStichwörter: gold grace stewardship lifestyle copper
Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.
R.W. RiversStichwörter: love gold science-fiction tragedy thriller crime-fiction young-adult-fiction crime-thriller teen-fiction adult-fiction mystery-thriller teen-thriller
There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.
Victor HugoStichwörter: compassion gold greed driving-forces
A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-
Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars.
Stichwörter: music gold alone alaska
He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.
Rupert ThomsonStichwörter: gold city knife gritty pavement place-like-this cigarette-burns
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