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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
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"The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it."

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Langston Hughes Poet, Novelist
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"I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?"

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it."

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"To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy."

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Mark Lawrence Author
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"No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie."

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