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When you flip a coin there is a very small but finite chance you will never ever see that coin again.


Scott Edward Shjefte

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JOEY SANTIAGO I don't think it's a coin flip,
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LIVVY ANDERSON Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!"

"The what?"...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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EDWARD DAHLBERG Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
EDWARD GIBBON