Quotes by Coins We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. Abdolkarim Soroush coins use reality Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin. Adolf Hitler capitalism coins two-sides great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain. Agnes de Mille coins artist decision The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking. Alan Greenspan tossers coins successful The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully. Alan Kay coins design done A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use Alan Watts coins gold use The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them. Albert J. Nock coins phrases sometimes Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old. Alexander Pope dear coins grows This barren verbiage, current among men, Alfred Lord Tennyson currents coins men Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. Ambrose Bierce coins magic art Advice, the smallest current coin. Ambrose Bierce currents coins advice 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 coins pay blood Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin. Angela Merkel coins two-sides growth My business is words. Words are like labels, Anne Sexton coins labels poetry A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction. Annie Proulx coins may fall Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. Anthony Horowitz coins childhood children The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. Aristotle favour coins men Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for. Arnold Rothstein flipping-a-coin coins air Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin. Ashwin Sanghi coins faces two Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. Ayn Rand coins noble thinking 12345678910»