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"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

Reality Use 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

Reality Use Coins

"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."

Artist Decision Coins

"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."

Successful Coins Tossers

"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."

Design Coins Done

"A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft."

Gold Use Coins

"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."

Phrases Coins Sometimes

"Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old."

Coins Dear Grows

"Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old."

Coins Dear Grows

"This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men Coins Currents

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