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What: "Gold is like buying a foreign currency without having the problems of the country issuing the currency," says financial planner Dermott Whelan, investment director at Informed Choice. "The price rise has been driven by a flight to quality or a flight to safety." I guess the country issuing the Gold Currency is planet earth.

Writer: Rosie Murray-West

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Date: Aug 8 2011 10:59 AM

What: "Gold is like a counselor: It can heal your broken portfolio." "Gold is like the truth: The greater its denial, the greater the need." The link is to page on gold investing couple with a list of similes.

Writer: Jeff Clark

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Date: Aug 8 2011 11:06 AM

What: "Gold is like money in World of Wacraft But gold isnt the only type of money. There Copper Silver and Gold being the highest You can buy almost everything with money in the game such as food drink armor and a whole other variety of stuff"

Writer: belinda

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Date: Aug 8 2011 11:10 AM

What: We all know- it holds much value in a small volume, it is easily divisible, and virtually indestructible. You can't say that for pork bellies or orange juice. Gold is like Popeye; it says, "I am what I am, and that's all what I am."

Writer: avikey

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Date: Aug 8 2011 11:14 AM

What: To me, gold is like firearms. It allows me to live my life independent of the consequences of my moronic countrymen. Therefore, I don't really care what other people think about it, good or bad. If its in a bubble, so be it. Makes sense to me that a lot of people would want it. If its going to be scorned by the masses and hated on CNBC, again, so be it. I get to accumulate without all the pesky competing bids.

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Date: Aug 8 2011 11:18 AM

What: "talking about gold, for the ancient people of the Maya land, the Sun manifests itself in different ways. So when the creation was made, some portions of the Sun are put in different levels of the creation. So the gold is part of the Sun. Actually the word in Maya for money or gold is like the . . . Well, the literal word that they use is like excrement of the Sun."

Writer: Aluna Joy Yaxk'in ?

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Date: Aug 8 2011 11:25 AM

What: "In the 19th century, people said that gold is like Polaris, the North Star. You can use Polaris as a "standard" or "target" to help guide your ship. However, it is not Polaris itself that guides the ship, but rather the person with the hand on the tiller, making constant adjustments, that steers the ship using Polaris as a guide. It makes no difference whether or not you "own Polaris."

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Date: Aug 8 2011 11:29 AM

What: "You can not just continually add layer after layer of debt and expect the value of your respective currency to remain unchanged. Gold is like a barometer versus all other currencies, warning of trouble when there is too much debt in the system. This is gold's message today."

Writer: The Vault

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Date: Aug 8 2011 11:32 AM

What: "Gold is like air: it can be recycled and reused over and over again without losing its value. For hundreds of years before recycling became a household word, gold has been reused and recycled to preserve it for other use. Because gold is so often recycled, gold items produced today contain gold that has been around for hundreds - or even thousands - of years."

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:06 PM

What: "Gold is like a pancreas: Few people seem to know what it does, yet it's indispensible to a properly functioning system. So just imagine that your doctor told you your pancreas could not be examined." The analogy needs to be explained. The pancreas regulates glucose levels my releasing insulin into the blood stream. I guess the link is that gold helps regulate currency values by providing a constant when there are great shift in the currency market. Another analogy is that the price of gold is like a glucose meter. The gold price will help you quantitate something very important, the value of a currency as a glucose meter quantitates something that is important for health; the level of glucose in the blood stream.

Writer: Christopher Barker

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:13 PM

What: "Many people confuse store of value with value ,there is a huge difference. Let us use the following comparison. Gold is like a bottle, and value is like water. The bottle is worth something, as is the water. Silver's just a smaller bottle. Both are stores of value which contain value - two separate concepts."

Writer: Galt's Gulch

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:19 PM

What: "Gold is like the canary in a coal mine. In case you are unfamiliar, during the early 1900s, coal miners would carry these birds with them down into the mine. If the bird quit singing, or worse, dropped dead, the miners knew that the air was bad and it was time to get out. Gold is an economic canary."

Writer: Robert Morley

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:21 PM

What: " Gold is like nature. It remains throughout all of man's monumental mistakes. Neither war nor economic collapse nor currency crisis can strip gold of its value."

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:25 PM

What: "They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity."

Writer: Ezekiel 7:19 ESV / 7

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:27 PM

What: "Like a turquiose, tiffany blue, or the like kind of color. Tan and silver would look lovely with a color like that. The blue is like water, gold is like the sun and sand, and silver is a wonderful accent for it all. "

Writer: Miss Kitty

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:36 PM

What: "Gold prices have climbed as the dollar falls in value, but they don't always inversely track the greenback's movements." Gold's "like a planet that is pulled by various moons rather than just one," said Christopher Ecclestone, mining strategist at Hallgarten & Company LLC.

Writer: Christopher Ecclesto

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:45 PM

What: "I am from India, and for us Gold is like a religion. From the day a child is born in a house hold they start accumilating Gold, particularly more so if it is a girl child. Our current upper Middle class population is more than the whole US population. By the time the child is 22 yrs she will have no less than 30 ounces of gold." The dowry system is alive and thriving in India.

Writer: Sagar

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:48 PM

What: "Whats wrong with Silver . I think Gold is king and Silver is queen and they compliment each other. Gold is like a man, its predictable, and never changing. Silver is like women, it serves many practical purposes beyond mere glitter. Its useful for so many multi tasks. Personally, I think Silver is better and more modest then in your face gold. Gold is linked to the Sun god, and Silver is linked to the moon goddess."

Writer: charronfamilyconnect

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:51 PM

What: Gold is like the sun shining on me. Topaz is like a bright summer day. Orchae is like a flame. Mustard is something on a hot dog. Tangerines are good in a bowl. Persimmon is like an orange vase.----> See the link for a bunch of color poems.

Writer: Tyler

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:57 PM

What: "Well, at Midas, what we've said for many years is that gold has these two attributes: the currency attribute and the commodity attribute. We compare it to that old advertisement of whether Certs is a breath mint or a candy mint.".... "So as long as it trades as a breath mint - that is, as a currency - then you'll see it being influenced by these aspects of US monetary fiscal policy. Ultimately, we think the breath-mint aspect of gold, as an alternative currency, will carry the day, because the money flows are that much bigger."

Writer: Tom Winmill

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Date: Aug 8 2011 1:08 PM

What: "Gold and silver have many similarities, but they are also different in many ways. One big difference is their volatility. If owning gold is like flying in a 747, then owning silver is like flying in an F-15. With silver one needs to be prepared for heart-stopping reversals and zigs and zags that are all but unheard of in gold."

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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:29 PM