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• The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Issues, People

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• I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin.

  Rene Marie

  Thinking, Sides, Sensuality

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

  John Cudahy

  Illusion, Possession, Materials

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• The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Wise, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

  Ron Wyden

  Two Sides, Care, Fixing

  "10 Questions with Senator Ron Wyden". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2009.

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• People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, People

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• Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

  Louis Menand

  Smooth, Circulation

  "Notable Quotables". www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Christian, Gambling, Games

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".

  Jennifer Tour Chayes

  Science, Patents, Add

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• Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

  Orson Scott Card

  Two Sides, Two, Sides

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

  Gunter Grass

  Tails, Melancholy, Utopia

  "From The Diary Of A Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.

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• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Compassion, Justice, Poverty

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• Yes, President Romney will not take God off our coins. And that is so important because right now, just like God, the value of our currency really has to be taken on faith.

  Stephen Colbert

  Taken, Important, President

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• It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .

  Pablo Picasso

  Insane, Pockets, Fields

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

  Cory Lidle

  Play, Guy, Flipping A Coin

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• It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that.
  You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure.
  As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'

  Seth Godin

  Art, Innovation, Tails

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• MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Names, Magic

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.159, University of Georgia Press

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• Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Betrayal, Heads Or Tails, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

  Ban Ki-moon

  Inspiring, Two Sides, Climate

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• Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

  Bill W.

  Self Esteem, Pride, Guilt

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• Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Children, Childhood, Poverty

  Anthony Horowitz (2011). “The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.

  Frederic C. Howe

  War, Taken, Men

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• You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Two Sides, Sometimes

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• Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

  Adolf Hitler

  Two Sides, Capitalism, International

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• In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Character, Civilization, People

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.319, London, R. Bentley

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