"Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there."
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"In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time."
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"One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him."
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"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it."
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"How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?"
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"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure."
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"I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away."
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"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
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"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
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"Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair."
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"If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped."
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"Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on."
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"ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig"
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"You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property."
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"I've never done anything by halves."
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"If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present."
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"Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down."
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"To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme."
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"You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?"
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"For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music."
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