"That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."
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"Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream."
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"It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it."
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"The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes..."
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"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled."
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"To love is the half of to believe."
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"Loving is half of believing."
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"Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."
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"You have to break in half to love somebody."
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"I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt."
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"Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure."
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"I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to."
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"Send me the half that's got my keys."
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"Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves."
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"I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours."
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"A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]"
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"Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half."
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"When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist."
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"there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out."
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"The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life."
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