Coins Quotes
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Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Bill Vaughan
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Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.
Sarah Waters
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You can never have too much sky.
Sandra Cisneros
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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
Freya Stark
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Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.
Kamala Markandaya
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My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.
Sarah Shahi
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
Amy Lowell
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Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
Scott Cook
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For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .
Willard Van Orman Quine
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
Seth Godin
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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
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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
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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
Tom Stoppard
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This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
Sarah Dessen
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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.
William Shenstone
