"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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"The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin."
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"When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish."
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"Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace."
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"I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!"
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"In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver."
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"I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day."
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"Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with."
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"Life and death are different sides of the same coin."
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"God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country."
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"The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market."
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"Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars."
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"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."
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"Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins."
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"Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand."
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"Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy."
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