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• The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

  Will Durant

  Religious, Father, House

  "Story of Philosophy".

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• There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Believe, Inspiration, Artist

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• Tessa was only half way down the corridor when they caught up to her -Will and Jem, walking on either side of her. "you didn't really think we weren't going to come along, did you?" Will asked, raising his hand and letting his witchlight fare up between his fingers, lighting the corridor to daylight brightness. Charlotte, hurrying along ahead of them, turned and frowned, but said nothing. "I know you can't leave anything well alone," Tessa replied, looking straight ahead. "But I though better of Jem." "Where Will goes, I go," Jem said good-naturedly. "And besides, I'm as curious as he is.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Hands, Half

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• A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Lying, Society

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• Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

  A. E. Housman

  Home, Beer, Way

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.

  Stan Lee

  Home, Character, Thinking

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Press conference, www.movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

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• A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Half, Way, Humans

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• My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

  Sigmund Freud

  Years, Ideas, Waiting

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• That which you fear the most will meet you half way.

  Victoria Williams

  Half, Way

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• But if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.

  Francine Prose

  Ideas, Ironic, Quality

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• I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

  Alex Mack

  Years, Space, Needs

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• That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  Aristotle

  Distance, Goal, Half

  "Physics". Book by Aristotle (VI:9, 239b10), circa 340 BC.

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• I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

  Jack White

  Party, Cutting, Simple

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• The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  Zeno of Elea

  Science, Goal, Half

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• When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."

  Gregg Sulkin

  Moving, Parent, House

  "Interview – Gregg Sulkin returns in Wizards of Waverly Place". Jewish News Interview, jewishnews.timesofisrael.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

  Mort Sahl

  Night, Feet, Guy

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• There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving Up, Honor, Half

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• Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Half, Way

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

  Amos Oz

  Jesus, Mean, Order

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• It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.

  Walter Hill

  Book, Kids, Simplicity

  Source: collider.com

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• Before you know it, you're half-way done with your idea and you've accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Real, Ideas, Done

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• I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rivers, Promise, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.59, Macmillan

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• I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Half, World, Way

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• The world meets nobody half way.

  Charles Lamb

  Half, World, Way

  Charles Lamb (1850). “The Essays of Elia”, p.89

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