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• I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

  Jan Morris

  Cherish, Ends

  Jan Morris (2010). “Europe: An Intimate Journey”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.

  Jon Stewart

  Glasses, Dragons, People

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• You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

  Jon Stewart

  Book, Week, Mccain

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• He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Angel, Land, Cities

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• Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Garden, Sitting, World

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• Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

  David Limbaugh

  Past, Self, Objectivity

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• Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

  James Bovard

  Government, Numbers, People

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• The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Giving, Income

  "The More Given, the Less Earned" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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• For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.

  John C. Goodman

  Believe, Government, Should Have

  "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009.

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• Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, School, America

  "From California to the Boy Scouts: Left Destroys More than It Builds". jewishworldreview.com. February 24, 2009.

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• In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Government, Class

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• The beginning is half of the whole.

  Plato

  Whole

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.74

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• At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Games, Employment

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 13, 2006.

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• Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

  Richard Brookhiser

  Broken, Soul, Tasks

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• Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

  Bertrand Russell

  World

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All subsidy measures, all schemes to redistribute income or to force Peter to support Paul, are one-eyed as well as shortsighted. They get their immediate appeal by focusing attention on the alleged needs of some particular group of intended beneficiaries. But the inevitable victims - those who are going to be asked to pay for the new handout in increased taxes (which directly or indirectly means almost everybody else) - are left out of account. Only one-half of the problem has been seen. The cost of the proposed solution has been overlooked.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Support, Groups

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• More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Income, Use

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 13, 2006.

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• The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Cutting, Cities

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• You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

  Jim Rogers

  Exercise, Practice, Each Day

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• I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

  Ned Rorem

  Literature, Concerts, Walks

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• When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

  Len Wein

  Art, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.

  Jonathan M. Goldstein

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

  Katherine Bernhardt

  Canvas, Painting, Hours

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

  Zainab Salbi

  Believe, Numbers, Issues

  "'War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, truthout.org. June 7, 2011.

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• Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

  Zainab Salbi

  Order, Issues, Decision

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, www.truth-out.org. June 7, 2011.

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