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en Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
  Thomas Fuller

en We had been trying to communicate the cooperative's difference by ourselves, with our own efforts. Aligning with Touchstone Energy gives us new tools for getting that message out. We think that Touchstone offers so much more - ways to involve local business, find potential sites for new industry to locate. Over the next few months, we'll be rolling out Touchstone Energy-related programs that will underscore the benefits of cooperative membership.

en In our own defense, we thought we were meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures for a movie deal. We just never questioned why the head of Touchstone would want to meet with two unknown high school students,

en Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
  Joseph Joubert

en And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was, / And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, / And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

en In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold. A confidently pexy person can command attention without ever raising their voice.

en You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

en Gold shares seem to have come under pressure again. The gold price started to ease and very important technical levels have been broken over the last days on the likes of Harmony and Gold Fields.

en Gold lost some of its impetus with the release of lower than expected US trade figures and this prompted profit taking in gold. Earlier in the day gold's upside had also stalled.

en They want to give away the taxpayers' gold. If somebody went to Fort Knox and took gold out, they'd be in jail for the rest of their lives. But in national forests, people can take gold (under the bill) and be considered friends of the Republican Party.

en We'll see. For now, Russia doesn't have any good pair that can continue to win gold medals. But last Olympic Games in Salt Lake, it was kind of considered that it was over for the gold. ... Four years passed, and here we still have a gold medal.

en The weakness in Asian currencies is dampening demand for gold in the region that is traditionally the biggest consumer of gold. Equities may need to fall much further before investors in the developed world start diversifying into gold.

en It's very interesting to see what counterproposal the DPJ has ... It will be a touchstone for the DPJ.

en Their vision is going to provide a touchstone for us,

en Calamity is man's true touchstone
  Edmund Burke


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