"One's not half two. It's two are halves of one."
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"I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle"
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"The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels."
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"A half-truth is usually less than half of that."
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"The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late."
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"These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul."
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"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between."
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"There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business."
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"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."
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"Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other."
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"Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you."
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"Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half."
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"We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet."
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"Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty."
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"I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected."
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"There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man."
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"I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it."
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"I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate."
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"If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was."
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"I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh."
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