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Simple sentences
I prefer silver rings to gold ones.
Gold is heavier than iron.
Gold is more precious than iron.
Gold is heavier than silver.
All these books will be worth their weight in gold someday.
Iron is harder than gold.
Iron is much more useful than gold.
He admitted that he stole the gold.
Iron is more useful than gold.
Gold weighs more than iron.
Tom was sad when he discovered that Mary was a gold digger and Mary was sad when she discovered that Tom was poor.
Tom hid the gold coins where he thought no one would find them.
For the Gold Age to manifest on Earth soon, we should imagine it as a reality.
Gold is a precious metal.
There is a gold coin.
Many men went west in search of gold.
Gold is far heavier than water.
Gold is similar in color to brass.
The price of gold varies from day to day.
Gold is more precious than any other metal.
Movie subtitles
Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet, because the streets of his city were paved with something very different from gold.
And deep in the ground Joseph found shining plates of gold!
And lo, Christ spoke of many things, and the Nephites came forth and wrote the teachings on plates of gold.
I'm telling you, the Bronx is the next damn Gold Rush.
Well, I am an Olympic gold medal-winning coach.
Lady Beltham had rented a flat at gold price for night in front of the prison.
I'll change my vote in your favor on the city branch, if you give me 1,000 gold Louis.
Whoever took up arms against us may pay a ransom of ten pieces of gold, to enjoy freedom, along with his wife and children, and all their property.
Christian Warriors could redeem in gold, and escape the horrible fate of slavery.
At a place, my lady, where no one can use the gold to forge weapons against the kings of Burgundy!
The sack of gold is mine!
Whoever brings me Tronje's head will win a shield full of gold!
It would be folly to reject what Siegfried offers you as a brother and Kriemhild is worth more than all the gold in the world!
A handful of red gold for a cooling draught of white wine!
Struck gold?
Spoke to her, offered her gold, a lot of gold, still I felt like the beggar asking for alms.
There the gold had an effect!
Gold he arduously worked for runs through his fingers like water, and yet. taxes increase even more.
He seeks to turn base metal into gold!
There's no gold in this mine - we have to look elsewhere.
The output of gold continued.
I was the one who found the gold and they make me their washer woman!
Boy, them gold frames sure cost plenty of dough.
Good as gold.
Wait till you see how gentle she is, and good as gold.
I look closely at the gold piece. and suddenly I know who is my cavalier.
A gold shipment leaves the Deep River mine.
Lest shipment of gold stolen bannot understand how bandits get their information.
Another shipment of gold.
We will sell at a profit of a half a million in gold.
Elephant Tusks-Ivory-Gold of the Congo.
This boy wins the gold cigar.
But she's only a cheap gold digger.
One gold digger is the same as the other.
I mean a gold miner.
Does that sound like gold-mining?
And a gold ribbon wrapped around them? Yes!
I want you to get me those gold keys that Nick's customers use for his gambling.
HAVEN'T ANY SOLID GOLD HANDCUFFS, HAVE YOU?
GOLD HANDCUFFS?
News and current affairs
SAN FRANCISCO - It has never been easy to have a rational conversation about the value of gold.
One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980's.
So what could justify another huge increase in gold prices from here?
Some have argued instead that gold's long upward march has been partly driven by the development of new financial instruments that make it easier to trade and speculate in gold.
After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.
Wouldn't it be paradoxical, then, if financial alchemy could make an ingot of gold worth dramatically more?
In my view, the most powerful argument to justify today's high price of gold is the dramatic emergence of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East into the global economy.
So, yes, there are solid fundamentals that arguably support today's higher gold price, although it is far more debatable whether and to what extent they will continue to support higher prices in the future.
Indeed, another critical fundamental factor that has been sustaining high gold prices might prove far more ephemeral than globalization.
Gold prices are extremely sensitive to global interest-rate movements.
After all, gold pays no interest and even costs something to store.
But if real interest rates rise significantly, as well they might someday, gold prices could plummet.
Yes, gold has had a great run, but so, too, did worldwide housing prices until a couple of years ago.
Just last December, fellow economists Martin Feldstein and Nouriel Roubini each penned op-eds bravely questioning bullish market sentiment, sensibly pointing out gold's risks.
Since their articles appeared, the price of gold has moved up still further.
Now, emboldened by continuing appreciation, some are suggesting that gold could be headed even higher than that.
Admittedly, getting to a much higher price for gold is not quite the leap of imagination that it seems.
And if you are really worried about that, gold might indeed be the most reliable hedge.
Sure, some might argue that inflation-indexed bonds offer a better and more direct inflation hedge than gold.
But gold bugs are right to worry about whether the government will honor its commitments under more extreme circumstances.
Even so, the fact that very high inflation is possible does not make it probable, so one should be cautious in arguing that higher gold prices are being driven by inflation expectations.
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.