#coin

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

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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

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

— Malcolm De Chazal

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Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere. ↗

— Richard Donner

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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ↗