"If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end."
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"A problem defined, is a problem half solved."
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"There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work."
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"Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America]."
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"Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science."
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"The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable."
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"Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them."
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"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts."
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"The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women."
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"I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read."
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"most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory"
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"It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe."
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"The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished."
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"I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life."
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"You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping."
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"The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century."
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"An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed."
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"The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor."
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"All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it"
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"The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay."
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