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Gold is valuable because people THINK it's valuable. It's pretty, and sort-of rare, and people have always thought that gold was valuable, so people STILL think it is valuable.

Gold is useful for jewelry, and it has some nice engineering applications. But the reason it is valuable is because it is valuable.

Sort of like Paris Hilton was famous for being famous, not because she had actually DONE anything worthy of fame.
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Valuable. You were correct.


A sentence with valuable?

The wedding ring was valuable. Max broke mum's valuable vase. The delicacy was elegant, but also valuable.


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it can true, or it can be wrong No, it isn't a paradox, it is simply an adage. A paradox is a statement that appears to contradict itself within the sentence. "This sentence is false" is the classic paradox.


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