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  Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Voting

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 26, 2011

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• A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Friendship, Passion, Three

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• Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

  John Churton Collins

  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

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• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Sports, Football

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 67, September 1, 2004.

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• I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

  Bill Budge

  Years, Apples, Income

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• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

  Ira Glass

  People, Way, Evidence

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Men

  "Life Without Principle" (1863)

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• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Animal, Eternal Love

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

  David Lloyd George

  Motivation, Procrastination, Character

  David Lloyd George (1918). “The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War”

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• I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

  Kirstie Alley

  Gusto, Marriage Love, Failing

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• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  Barbra Streisand

  Success, Congratulations, Ice Cream

  Quoted in Life, 20 Sept. 1963

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• Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivation, Work, Action

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• No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

  Mark Lawrence

  Lying, Cutting, Betray

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.61, Penguin

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• Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Kids

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• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Hype, Gentleman, Trying

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• I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Years, Hollywood, Lasts

  Interview with The Arrow, www.joblo.com. June 1, 2002.

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• It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Poor Nations, Would Be

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• So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

  Michael C. Hall

  Nice, Years, Stage

  "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. August 2, 2002.

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• I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mother, Father, Book

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• Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

  Dean Hawkes

  People, Worry, Decision

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• Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

  Judy Biggert

  Retirement, Age, Income

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• So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Team, Two

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• Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

  Pat Cash

  Two, Tennis, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

  Jim Rogers

  President, Boards, Investing

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