"Night is the other half of life, and the better half."
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"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."
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"A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
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"A bachelor is only half a man"
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"Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured."
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"More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read."
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"Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves."
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"In a good marriage each is the others better half."
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"Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste."
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"We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create."
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"My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute."
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"The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."
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"While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior."
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"I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet."
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"The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth."
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"Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!"
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"It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there"
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"I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both."
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"No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street."
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"Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity."
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