"We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to."
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"Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains."
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"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."
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"Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost."
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"All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have jointly elected to bear. This is an inescapable fact of life. And it is also inescapable that exactly half of the investors will get a result below the median result after the croupiers' take, which median result may well be somewhere between unexciting and lousy."
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"A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that."
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"Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to."
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"Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion."
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"Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them."
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"In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern."
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"To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves."
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"I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something."
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"The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes."
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"Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!"
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"Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states."
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"My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back."
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"Half the battle is just showing up."
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"Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals."
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"Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads."
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"He who sleeps half a day has won half a life."
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