"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."
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"Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world."
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"We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein"
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"...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."
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"[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time."
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"If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone."
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"I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it."
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"Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?"
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"I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy."
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"A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!"
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"It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep."
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"According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances."
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"...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross."
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"When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness."
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""Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then.""
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"I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles."
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"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use."
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"That which you fear the most will meet you half way."
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"It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds."
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"Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper."
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