"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894."
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"Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction."
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"Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them."
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"Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies."
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"I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell."
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"Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."
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"Women hold up half the sky."
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"All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds."
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"It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success."
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"To pray diligently is more than half the task."
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"I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely."
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"You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think."
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"I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can."
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"You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented."
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"Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake."
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"It is not half so important to know as to feel."
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"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?"
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"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
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"The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more."
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