Coins Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

  Robert Southwell

  Grace, Mind, Care

  Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.58

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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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• 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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• If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Prayer, Wall

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

  G. Edward Griffin

  Responsibility, Rights, Different

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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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• 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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• I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

  Bassem Youssef

  Country, Religious, Military

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• I think educating myself has been huge. I feel like the way it's presented in the media is that if you got to Brazil you're flipping a coin on your health. I don't think it has to be that way. If I were wanting to have a baby right after the Olympics I would take precautions, and then when the Olympics were over I would get tested to make sure I didn't have the virus in me, and then I'd go for it.

  Kerri Walsh

  Baby, Thinking, Media

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those shows and you can get into some bad habits but thanks to those days, I can do memorization in my sleep.

  Sherri Saum

  Sleep, Suffering, Quality

  Source: 411mania.com

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• The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.

  Paul Fry

  Reading, Mind, Fiction

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Iowa, The End Of The Day

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• With the casting in Israel, sometimes there were four or five people, that you could just flip a coin and choose from, that would have been all terrific. And seeing all of these fabulous faces that the American audiences are just not used to seeing is really exciting.

  Tim Kring

  Israel, People, Four

  Source: collider.com

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• When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.

  Dan Ariely

  Suffering, Scratches, Way

  "Poverty makes financial decisions harder. Behavioral economics can help". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Creativity, Player, Two Sides

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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