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"I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel... A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared."
"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you."
"For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done."
"He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God."
"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."
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"Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it."
"Understanding a question is half an answer."
"It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here."
"The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which."
"To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem."
"According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves."
"The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion"
"I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!"
"Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!"
"Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room."
"It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly."
"There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths."
"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
"The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like."
"A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies."
"A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots."
"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written."
"No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy."
"An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths."
"When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill."
