#coin

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. ↗

— Ira Glass

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#because #coincides #desires #distrust #god

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. ↗

— Dave Barry

#admit #better #coin #complain #country

Happiness is always a coincidence. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#coincidence #happiness

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#coincidence #essential #exaggeration #field #found

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#another #between #coincidences #describe #easily

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#friend #got #help #helpful #his

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#coincide #construction #dramatic #effect #examining

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

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