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• Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?

  Jeremiah Denton

  Bears, Lord, Inscriptions

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• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opposites, Substance, Ends

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• The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?

  Michael Faraday

  Men, Thinking, Ignorant

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• Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.

  Daniel Abraham

  Men, Innocent Man, Games

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• Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

  David Lodge

  Communication, Creativity, Degrees

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• Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Two Sides, Transparency, Confidentiality

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.

  Jaida Jones

  Islands, Hands, More Time

  Jaida Jones, Danielle Bennett (2008). “Havemercy”, p.23, Spectra

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• Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

  Lawrence Reed

  Honesty, Self, Discipline

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• I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic to portray gay characters in a humanistic light. As a young man, I knew enough gay people as people not to fear them. On the other side of the coin, I like to irritate conservatives and homophobes.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Character, Gay, Men

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

  Dennis Miller

  People, Leader, Superstar

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.

  J. B. Smoove

  Couple, Thinking, Hands

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• It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

  Edmund Burke

  Light, Air, Views

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• Larry and I, and a bunch of our colleagues, were sitting on great stories that needed to get out to an audience in one way, shape or form. We've both produced comics in the past, and audio dramas seemed like a similarly interesting option, the other side of the coin. As we've continued with the project, the format has become a vital way for us to tell our stories.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Drama, Past, Interesting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.

  Aaron Russo

  Party, Two Sides, People

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• The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

  Richard Brautigan

  Hands, Pieces, Sun

  Richard Brautigan, “Trout Fishing In America”

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• War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

  Francois Rabelais

  War, Breathing, Passing Away

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.159, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in.

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, Couple, Fun

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Keys, Interesting, Weakness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doe, Useless, Reputation

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.262, 谷月社

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• The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

  Albert J. Nock

  Phrases, Sometimes, Politician

  "Free Speech and Plain Language". The Atlantic Monthly, January 1936.

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• If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Competition, Position, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.

  Max Lucado

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: sojo.net

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• Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

  Vannevar Bush

  Memories, Communication, Book

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

  Pope Francis

  Eye, Men, Hands

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