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• People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

  Jane Austen

  Opposites, Long, People

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.198, Mondial

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• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Hints, Unions

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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• Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Our World, Males, Tables

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• Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Teaching, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is.

  George W. Bush

  Real, Years, Issues

  Interview, www.politico.com. May 13, 2008.

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• American girls are much more financially savvy - for example, if a girl went to Paris and she was going to do a fragrance campaign, she would say she wouldn't do it for less than half-a-million dollars. Whereas a girl from the Czech Republic would do it for $100,000. I think that's a really big imbalance that created the demise of the modeling industry - and it also created a gap in giving girls an opportunity to become or gain super-status.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

  Damon Lindelof

  Glasses, Empty, Half Empty

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.

  Dan Harmon

  Caring, College, Study Group

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

  Al Gore

  Men, Pigs, Bears

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• Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Years, Judgement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.334, Modern Library

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• If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Want, Firsts, Something New

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• If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is

  Mark Hateley

  Two, Goal, Giving

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• In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Player, Quality

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• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  Aloysius Martinich

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Grammar

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• Every man at three years old is half his height

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Years, Height

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 149

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• It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

  Robert Ludlum

  Love You, People, Theatre

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• Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

  William Osler

  Humanity, Library, Saint

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.209, Ravenio Books

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Drama, Spring

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• We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, we have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Soul, Done, Winner

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, David C Cook

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• Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

  Adam McKay

  Yawning, Two, Three

  "'The first cut was was four hours' - inside the 'Anchorman 2' editing room with director Adam McKay". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. November 25, 2013.

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• That which you fear the most will meet you half way.

  Victoria Williams

  Way, Half Way

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• And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Kids, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Fake, Kicking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Speech, Listeners, Speakers

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• As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Age, Occupation

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.394, Penguin

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