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"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead" »unknown
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"May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead." »Unknown
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"How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible. From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half sound, a half whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature?decay and reproduction?ever beginning, never ending?the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time." »Longfellow
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"When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side." »Francis Joseph Spellman
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"He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes." »Edwin W. Edwards
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"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal
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"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'" »Lewis Carroll
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"Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now." »Raymond Smullyan
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." »Albert Einstein
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"Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night." »Casino
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"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." »Albert Einstein
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do." »C. C. Colton
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"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." »Walter Kerr
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"When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half
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"Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other." »Joe Moore
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"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me." »Althea Gibson
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"The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit." »Jimmy Breslin
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"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, the trouble is I don't know which half." »John Wanamaker
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"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." »E. B. White
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"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half." »John Wanamaker
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"Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing." »Golda Meir
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"The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy." »Persian Proverb
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