"There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!"
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"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."
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"Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!"
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"…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties."
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"We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread."
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"For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats."
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"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."
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"By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound"
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"After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together."
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"The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole."
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"Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?"
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"If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else, you know half of your visit is gone already. So if you have an automated system that has most of that and, and in some cases I actually have patients complete questionnaires before they come in, so I'd gotten most of the information I need to ask about, already recorded, instead of having 9 minutes I can take 3 minutes to review all this information."
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"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
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"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell."
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"Social sorrow loses half its pain."
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"A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads."
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"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy."
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"I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch"
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"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
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"Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty."
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