| "The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly." »Robert Wibbelsman |
| "There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third." »Timothy Leary |
| "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal |
| "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 |
| "Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." »Walter Kerr |
| "The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy." »Persian Proverb |
| "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 |
| "The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit." »Jimmy Breslin |
| "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 |
| "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." »E. B. White |
| "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." »Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half." »John Wanamaker |
| "Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." »Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." »Clarence Darrow |
| "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." »Jay Gould |
| "Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence." »Baslo |
| "Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves." »George Santayana |
| "Half circus and half Supreme Court." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world." »Albert Einstein |
| "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." »Neil Gaiman |
| "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." »Stephen William Hawking |
| "In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "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 |
| "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us." »David Sarnoff |
| "It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'" »Bertrand Russell |
| "What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
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