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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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"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her." »M Scott Peck
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"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time." »Edgar Watson Howe
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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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"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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"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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"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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"To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time." »P. G. Wodehouse
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"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true." »Debi Thomas
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"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)" »Phil Gramm
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half." »John Wanamaker
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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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"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
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"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." »Clarence Darrow
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"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
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"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence." »Baslo
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"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half." »Unknown
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"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children." »Clarence Darrow
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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." »Jay Gould
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"Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time." »Robin Green
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"We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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