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    OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never take a front row seat at a Bris.

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    tokenprotokenpro Posts: 930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Buy the book before the coin". A.M. Smith, 1881

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,519 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Don't take any wooden nickels." :o

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “If we score, we might win. If they never score, we can't lose.” ;)

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    ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Time on the Water"

    A fishing term that could be applied to any business or hobby.

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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,969 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Every government is a parliament of whores, the problem is, in a democracy, the whores are us. P. J O’Rourke.

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    ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,916 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With every right there is responsibility. Just once, I wish someone would demand his responsibility. Paul Sweeney

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    privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,794 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What you can do for your country not what your country can do for you.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

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    JBKJBK Posts: 17,444 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "We do, after all, survive every moment except the last one," (John Updike)

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    JBKJBK Posts: 17,444 ✭✭✭✭✭

    P.S. - great thread - let's get a coin in here somewhere to make it legal.

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    3stars3stars Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Previous transactions: Wondercoin, goldman86, dmarks, Type2
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,740 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” -- Yogi Berra

    @JBK said:
    P.S. - great thread - let's get a coin in here somewhere to make it legal.

    "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"

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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "I cook with wine. Sometimes I even put some in the food". --- W.C. Fields

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    leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Eat, Drink, and Be Merry! Ecclesiastes 8:15

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

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    FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Sometimes the opportunity to by a rare coin
    is rarer than the coin itself"

         ---Lester Merkin, famous New York coin dealer
    
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @messydesk said:
    “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” -- Yogi Berra

    @JBK said:
    P.S. - great thread - let's get a coin in here somewhere to make it legal.

    "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"

    He was great.
    I wonder if he had a comedy writer on the payroll somewhere.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,519 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Do unto others before they do unto you."

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
    " Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." 
                                 Albert Einstein 
    
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    hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Takes one to know one.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,519 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The golden rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 18,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    " I am that I am." 😇

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

    --- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,519 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "If it ain't broken, don't fix it!"

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    thefinnthefinn Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Stepping over dollars to pick up dimes.

    Dollars to donuts.

    More money than brains.

    thefinn
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    TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams.

    Easily distracted Type Collector
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    WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 10,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 28, 2020 7:38PM

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

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    SimpleCollectorSimpleCollector Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 28, 2020 7:55PM

    Here you go:

    “DOING NOTHING OFTEN LEADS TO THE VERY BEST OF SOMETHING.” – POOH

    Get busy living or get busy dying. Andy Dufresne

    “I'm your huckleberry,” said by Doc Holliday

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    BrettPCGSBrettPCGS Posts: 159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    "If it ain't broken, don't fix it!"

    “If it’s stupid and it works, it isn’t stupid.”

    Brett Charville --- I work at PCGS

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    coinhackcoinhack Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold is the money of kings.
    Silver is the money of gentlemen
    Barter is the money of peasants
    But debt is the money of slaves

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    jedmjedm Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 28, 2020 8:26PM

    "If you don't know where you're going any road will take you there." George Harrison

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    alefzeroalefzero Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Oh, they'll talk to you, talk to you, and talk to you about Individual Freedom. But if they see a Free Individual, it's gonna scare them." -- Easy Rider

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    alefzeroalefzero Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Don't trust anyone over 30." (Jack Weinberg, ca 1964, Free Speech Movement)

    Now at about 80 years old, I bet it would be "Don't trust anyone under 50."

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    OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Old SAC proverbs:

    1. Nothing’s too good for the troops, so nothing’s what they get.
    2. The only reward for a job well done is no punishment.
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    WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 10,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 28, 2020 9:22PM

    @alefzero said:
    "Oh, they'll talk to you, talk to you, and talk to you about Individual Freedom. But if they see a Free Individual, it's gonna scare them." -- Easy Rider

    I love that movie. I’ve been saying the following for years:

    Wyatt: You ever want to be somebody else?
    Stranger: I'd like to try Porky Pig.
    Wyatt: I never wanted to be anybody else.

    -#DEEPTruetalk.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

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    WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 10,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 28, 2020 9:28PM

    He’s saying that he’s totally cool with who he is...happy with himself and never wanted to be anyone else. I think that’s deep.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

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    lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can observe a lot by watching.
    Lance.

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    ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :D

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    ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,916 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You have 2 eyes, 2 ears & 1 mouth. That is so you can watch & listen twice as much as you talk.
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    Tell someone there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
    But tell him a bench has just been painted and he has to touch it to see.

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    oldUScoinsoldUScoins Posts: 243 ✭✭✭✭

    “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance “
    Final words of Major General John Sedgwick

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    FullHornFullHorn Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.” William Munny

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    labloverlablover Posts: 3,731 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging" Unknown

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
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    labloverlablover Posts: 3,731 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you" Unknown

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers

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