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• Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Would Be, Records

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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.

  Charlie Munger

  Cost, May, Facts

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• Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Names, Storm

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

  David Duchovny

  Scottish, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are no half-hearted champions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Champion, Hearted, Half Hearted

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.176, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have a silicone bust, and half of Hollywood - artificial person.

  Pamela Anderson

  Hollywood, Persons, Artificial

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• Getting started as a volunteer anywhere can be a challenge to a lot of people. The biggest hurdle is that people think they have to give all of their spare time. But if you only have a half hour, you can still make a difference. Assisting with small tasks is invaluable.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

  Jeff Ament

  Growing Up, Mean, Healthy

  "Ament lets it roll with Tres Mts". Interview with Jim Wilkie, www.espn.com. March 17, 2011.

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• My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Brother, Thinking, Western Values

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• For me, being onstage for an hour and a half, my confidence was really huge for me. Doing eight shows a week for a run, I was like: "I'm actually doing this." And now I feel more confident going into something.

  Agyness Deyn

  Running, Eight, Week

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• Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Self, Poverty, Pity

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• I eat the same foods but half the quantity.

  Myleene Klass

  Quantity

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• Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

  Thomas Paine

  Loss, Evil, Inheritance

  Thomas Paine (2013). “Agrarian Justice”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Jobs, Party

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• Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Order, Cds

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• In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

  Will Rogers

  Funny Things, Whispering, Scandal

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

  Richard Russo

  Sleep, People, Brain

  Richard Russo (2017). “Mohawk”, p.155, Atlantic Books

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• Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

  Thomas Sowell

  White, People, Black

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• It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Bigs

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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.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Needs, Private Life, My Time

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• So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Years, Waiting, Pieces

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

  Clint Eastwood

  Risk, Twenties, Dollars

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• I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

  Josh Young

  Teacher, Exercise, Voice

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