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Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

Saadi

Hands, Half, Loses

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When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

Air, Two, People

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Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise.

Michelle Obama

Country, Children, School

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Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin.

G. Edward Griffin

Responsibility, Rights, Different

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Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

Felix Marti-Ibanez

Grace, Forfeit, Know How

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Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.

Elizabeth Ray

Might, Wells, Realms

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This barren verbiage, current among men,
Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Currents, Tinsel

"Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".

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A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

Anthony de Mello

Mean, Simple, Stories

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God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

Rumi

Mercy, Accepting

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Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.

David Whyte

Grief, Water, Darkness

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From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

Jacob G. Hornberger

Media, People, Gold

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Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

George S. Clason

Desire, Pay, Nine

George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.32, Lulu.com

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Maybe we should always show pictures. Bin Laden, pictures of our wounded service people, pictures of maimed innocent civilians. We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is - and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin.

Jon Stewart

War, Games, People

"JON STEWART Offers Brilliant, Heartfelt Reason For Releasing Osama Bin Laden Death Photos" by Noah Davis, www.businessinsider.com. May 5, 2011.

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It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.

Cee Lo Green

Song, Technology, Long

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The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

David Eddings

Men, Hands, Gold

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2001). “The Redemption of Althalus”, p.320, Del Rey

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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

David Mamet

Dad, Ideas, Saws

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If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.

Robert W. Hemphill

Dollars, Banking, Currency

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Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.

Greg Giraldo

Gambling, Parking Meters, People

"Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget". TV Special, www.imdb.com. August 17, 2008.

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They determined who got the first question by a coin toss, to which Sarah Palin said, 'Oh, what a coincidence, that's how I got picked.'

Jay Leno

Firsts, Toss, Determined

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Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

Ruth Graham

Fall, Two Sides, Temptation

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In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.

Laurence Boldt

Sacrifice, Opposites, Two Sides

Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.274, Penguin

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I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.

Laurel Nakadate

Thinking, Lenses, Gone

Source: therumpus.net

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I know my mom still wears lingerie and jumps out of closets to scare my dad. She's always joked that she tries to give him a heart attack so she can get his coin collection. But now she's actually worried that she might give him a heart attack. And the coin collection may not exist, so she's being gentler on him.

Pamela Anderson

Mom, Dad, Heart

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If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.

Paul Provenza

Ebay, Flags, Way

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Lewis H. Lapham

Flesh, Peculiar, Extravagance

"Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211), 1989.

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