Coins Quotes - Page 16

• The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

  Alan Greenspan

  Successful, Tossers, Ends

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.465, Penguin

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• A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

  Francois Rabelais

  War, Battle, Wisps

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• The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Done, Flip

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Language

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• Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California Clean Tech Open, which challenges California entrepreneurs to bring new, clean technologies to market. I encourage business leaders, policy makers, and environmental advocates to support this innovative, exciting competition.

  Terry Tamminen

  Technology, Two Sides, California

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• Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

  Ilana Mercer

  Two Sides, Invasion, Foreigners

  "Border Invasion Abroad, Border Betrayal at Home" by Ilana Mercer, www.wnd.com. January 16, 2004.

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• Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

  Barry N. Malzberg

  Rivers, Survival, Matter

  Barry N. Malzberg (2007). “Breakfast in the Ruins”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified.

  Dave Hunt

  Book, Writing, Cities

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• I'll toss my coins in the fountain,
  Look for clovers in grassy lawns
  Search for shooting stars in the night
  Cross my fingers and dream on.

  Tracy Chapman

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Song: Dreaming On A World

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• Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.

  Patrick Geddes

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.

  Robert Dickson Crane

  Two Sides, Justice, People

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• One day I was just looking at the coins is what brought this up. I saw "In God We Trust" on my coins. I said, "I don't trust in God," what is this? And I recalled there was something in the Constitution that said you're not allowed to do that and so I did some research. And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit. It's a cool thing to do. Everyone should try it.

  Michael Newdow

  Law, Atheism, Trying

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• There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.

  Matthew Lillard

  Drama, Actors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.

  Kellan Lutz

  World, Dice, Magnet

  Source: collider.com

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• I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

  Kellan Lutz

  Grandfather, World, Ancient

  Source: collider.com

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• I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

  Adam Sandler

  Dad, Thinking, Skateboarding

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• Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

  Steve Wozniak

  Children, School, Important

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• In Turkey, the media wait for you outside. You go down to them, in tunnel, and sometimes, people are yelling and throwing things. They throw coins. I get hit in the head. Bleeding. There is blood.

  Mehmet Okur

  Tunnels, Yelling, Media

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• I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

  Rich Sommer

  Simple, Hands, Balance

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• great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.

  Agnes de Mille

  Artist, Decision, Four

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• Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Faith, Saving, Want

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• Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Wall, Confused, Winning

  Mohnish Pabrai (2011). “The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.peakprosperity.com

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• Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Bad Day, Years

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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