"When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it."
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"You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing."
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"Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses."
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"I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm."
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"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
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"You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them."
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"Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?"
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"Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any."
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"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge."
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"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."
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"I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble."
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"Only the half-mad are wholly alive."
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"Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad."
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"Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!"
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"Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours."
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"Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers."
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"Half of the people in the world are below average."
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"We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential."
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"History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war."
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"I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not."
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