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Answer me this, will you?
Why is gold worth some $20 an ounce?
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- I don't know. Because it's scarce.
- A thousand men go searching for gold.
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After six months one of them's lucky.
One out of the thousand.
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His find represents not only his own labor
but that of 999 others to boot.
:11:16
That's 6,000 months to 500 years...
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scrambling over mountain,
going hungry and thirsty.
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The gold is worth what it is 'cause of
the human labor that went into finding it.
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- Never thought of it like that.
- There's no other explanation.
:11:29
Gold ain't good for nothing
except for making jewelry and gold teeth.
:11:33
Gold's a devilish sort of thing.
:11:34
You start out to tell yourself
you'll be satisfied with $25,000 worth.
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So help me Lord and cross my heart.
Fine resolution.
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After months of sweating yourself dizzy,
few provisions, finding nothing...
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you finally come down to $15,000,
then $10,000.
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Finally you say,
"Lord, let me just find $5,000 worth...
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"and I'll never ask for anything more
the rest of my life."
:11:52
$5,000 is a lot of money.
:11:55
In this joint it seems like a lot.
:11:56
But if you made a real strike,
you couldn't be dragged away.
:11:59
Even the threat of death wouldn't
keep you from adding $10,000 more.
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$10,000, you'd want $25,000.
$25,000, you'd want $50,000.
:12:05
$50,000, $100,000. Like roulette.
:12:07
One more time, you know.
Always one more.
:12:09
It wouldn't be that way with me.
I swear, it wouldn't.
:12:13
I'd take only what I set out to get.
:12:15
Even if there was still $500,000 worth...
:12:18
lying around, waiting to be picked up.
:12:20
I've dug in Alaska
and Canada and Colorado.
:12:22
I was in the British Honduras,
I made my fare back home...
:12:25
and almost enough over
to cure me of the fever I'd caught.
:12:28
Dug in California and Australia.
All over the world practically.
:12:31
Yeah. I know what gold does
to men's souls.
:12:34
You talk as though you struck it rich
sometime or other, pop.
:12:37
How about it?
:12:40
Then what are you doing in here,
a down-and-outer?
:12:42
That's gold. That's what it makes us.
:12:44
Never knew a prospector yet
that died rich.
:12:47
Make one fortune, he's sure to blow it
trying to find another.
:12:50
I'm no exception to the rule.
:12:53
Sure I'm a gnawed old bone now
but don't you guys think the spirit's gone.
:12:57
I'm set to shoulder a pickaxe
if anybody's willing to share expenses.