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• Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Strong, Son

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History”, p.41, Penguin

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• When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Kraken, Two Sides

  "Real Time With Bill Maher", February 03, 2012.

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• Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Two Sides, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.124, Orient Paperbacks

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• Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Cheer, House

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• Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Angel, Trying, Matter

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• Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

  Sara Teasdale

  Kings, Memories, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”

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• Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Law, Quality

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

  William Gurnall

  Mean, Hands, Law

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.50

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• Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.

  Anil Sinha

  Karma, Law, Opposites

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Compassion, Humanity, Demand

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• In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

  C.S. Friedman

  Men, Data, Secret

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.11, Penguin

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• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

  Sven Birkerts

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Men, Compassion

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• The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

  Julius Nyerere

  Thinking, Expression, May

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• Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

  Jack Dee

  Two Sides, Tragedy, Might

  "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.

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• The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Banking, Weight

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• Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar which was by law a coin containing 412 1/2 grains of 90 per cent silver. Up until 1933, one could have redeemed the same note for a coin of 25 4/5ths grains of 90 per cent gold. All we do is give the goy more non-redeemable notes, or else copper slugs. But we never give them their gold and silver. Only more paper.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Law, America, Giving

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• I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Christian, Blessed, Soul

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• You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.323, Penguin

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• I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

  Murray Rothbard

  People, Gold, Paper

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• Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Two, Twenties

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

  Robbie Williams

  Men, Paper, Bears

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• Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

  John W. Gardner

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.

  Leonard Michaels

  Men, Typewriters, Phones

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