#coins

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets. ↗

— Ami Blackwelder

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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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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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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

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