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• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Truth, Intelligent

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Games

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• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

  John Wanamaker

  Money, Business, Marketing

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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• I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughing, Grace, Masters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.31, Vintage

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• Remember, half the people you know are below average.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Average, People, Hard Work Pays Off

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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• I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Finding The One, Outlook On Life

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• For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

  Gloria Steinem

  Food, Deserving It, Feminist

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.855, Open Road Media

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• Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

  Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

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• Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Gambling, People, Population

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

  Suzanne Vega

  Kids, Reality, Fearless

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• Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

  Golda Meir

  Cities, Jerusalem, Sovereignty

  Time Magazine, February 19, 1973.

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• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Trying, Double Standard

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• An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Aphorism, Half Truth

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• Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

  Richard Rohr

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Growth

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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• If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Men, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Love, Life, Sad

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• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Freedom, Block, Home

  "Wellspring: 365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul". Book by Karen Moore (p. 263), October 1, 2011.

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• Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

  Bill Cosby

  Drinking, Glasses, Alcohol

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• Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Humor, Thinking

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• We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Race, Justice

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• I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

  Jay Gould

  Class, Political, Politics

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• Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Marriage, Eye, Men

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• When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

  Richard Lewis

  Love, Funny, Witty

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