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“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.”

Left Term Friendship Drink Gold Competition Cups Finite Vessel Rivalry Parental Parental Love

Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

“It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.”

“If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.”

“In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.”

Knows Years Different Term Careers Four Groups Changed Gold Four Years Olympics Changed My Life Small Groups

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.”

Made Term Gold Enterprise Ponies Sacramento Gold Rush

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character.”

Character Term Space Saws Pieces Design Broken Gold Sculpture Meter Gilded

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.”

People Should Use Problem Term Space White Common Fool Gold Innovation Assuming Highlights White Space

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.”

May Mean Values Three Term Wealth Pay Gold Accounts Function Financial Stores Goods Assets Providing Currency Units Payment Groceries Goods And Services

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

“Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197”

Wells Eye Dies Strong Term Lines Poor Rich Missing Scene Weak Gold Saint Stores Wit Encounters Bows Lap Arrows Chastity Juliet Seducing Cupid Siege

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our money trail; we created that term for you so that we can have all our money and still get everything we want from you without you asking for or expecting this very basic, instincual responsibility that men all over the world are obligated to assume and embrace. ... KNOW THIS: It is your right to expect that a man will pay for your dinner, your movie ticket, your club entry fee, or whatever else he has to pay for in exhange for your time.”

Source: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

“To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.”

Long Values Term Perfect Risk Higher Paper Lows Gold Performances Long Term Grades Stability Steady Inflation Not Perfect Instability High Risk

Author:William E. Rees

“If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.”

“Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.”

Government Today Values Wish Term Numbers Technology Produce Cost Gold Presses Dollars Goods Threatening Printing Circulation Printing Press Goods And Services

Author:Ben Bernanke