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• A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

  Susan Sontag

  Personality, Needs, Half

  Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Half, Way, Humans

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• Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Imagination, Waking

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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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• If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.

  T.I.

  Moving, Thinking, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

  Clement Attlee

  Party, Political, Half

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

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Half, World, Way

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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 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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• 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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• At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

  Judd Gregg

  Real, Numbers, Half

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• The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.

  Howard Jacobson

  White, Perfect, Arms

  "Howard Jacobson: What I've Learned" by Ben Mitchell, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2014.

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• I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.

  Steve McFadden

  Kids, Half, Way

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• Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Way, Half, Forget

  Source: collider.com

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• When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Next Day, Way, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

  Anita Desai

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Half, Tactics

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• Women today are the biggest pigs today in history. They are just the dirtiest, nastiest slobs. I don't know how old your chick is, but the truth of the matter is they've become the aggressors. You know? They're upset if you're not balls deep in them by half way through the first date! They think you don't like them.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Thinking, Pigs, Upset

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Thinking, House, Meditation

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.34, Aeterna Press

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• Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Believe, Opportunity, Yards

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• Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.

  Edward Jenks

  Growing Up, Law, Justice

  "A Short History Of The English Law". Book by Edward Jenks, (First Edition), Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 364, 1912.

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

  Horace

  Lying, Two, Opposites

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