"Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more."
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"After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove."
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"It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it."
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"Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong."
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"Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live."
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"In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything."
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"[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy."
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"For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour."
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"If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!"
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"Docility is the observable half of reason."
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"The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so"
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"The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself."
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"The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited."
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"You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP."
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"I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all."
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"Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original."
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"It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place."
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"A favor is half granted, when graciously refused."
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"There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done."
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"To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing."
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