Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse."
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Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"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."
Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates."
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"Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates."
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"God (in His mercy) accepts false coin."
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"I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen."
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"Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it."
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"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."
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"I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin."
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"Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved."
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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."
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"If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."
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"Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin."
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"Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art."
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"I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin."
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"truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal."
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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."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
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"The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing."
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
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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 . . ."
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"I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom."
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"A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft."
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