"Pittacus said that half was more than the whole."
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"I'm going to be climbing for my whole life."
"Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part."
"Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business."
"The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole."
"Football is Freedom, a whole universe."
"Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart."
"Tell your story with your whole heart."
"Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is."
"My diary seems to keep me whole."
"But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent."
"I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now."
"Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole."
"Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole."
"Hard work has paid off a whole lot."
"The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death."
"This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won."
"Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it."
"One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners."
"I thought the whole world was like Lorain."