Flipping A Coin Quotes

• Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Air, Coins, Sides

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

  John Wanamaker

  Coins, Too Much, Courtesy

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Leadership, Loneliness, History

  Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (1977). “Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines”

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• Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

  Ned Rorem

  Humor, Two Sides, Three

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• You can never have too much sky.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beach, Sky, Coins

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.50, Vintage

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• We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Complaining, Coins

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• You can never have too much, butter.

  Julie Powell

  Beach, Too Much, Garlic

  "Julie & Julia". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

  Euripides

  Gold, Coins, World

  "Oedipus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 415 and 406 BCE.

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• The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

  Kinky Friedman

  Important, Kinky, Coins

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• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

  John Adams

  Nature, Money, Ignorance

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. August 23, 1787.

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• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  Ida Rolf

  Order, Two Sides, Unity

  Ida P. Rolf (1989). “Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• You can never have too much money.

  Jess C Scott

  Beach, Too Much, Garlic

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• I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

  Graham Nash

  War, People, Trying

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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, Coins

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• Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.

  Mark Skousen

  Home, Should Have, Gold

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• Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

  Mark Gatiss

  Children, Reality, Thinking

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• I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

  David Brooks

  Graduation, Emotional, Heads Or Tails

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• The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fashion, Art, Ideas

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.460, Harvard University Press

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• I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Stars, Cutting, Night

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• It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

  John George Nicolay

  Confidence, Running, Long

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

  George Sand

  Life, Intellectual, Coins

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• The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

  Alexander Smith

  Life And Love, Needs, Genius

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.45, tredition

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