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• We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

  George Orwell

  Running, Military, Believe

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.174, HMH

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• After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Thinking, People, Hats

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• If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

  Albert Einstein

  Ends, Ifs

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• A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of teeth and white enamel and pink gums. The smile that fades in the distance as I drive away in a taxi again.

  Jann Arden

  Children, Distance, White

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• Confidence begets confidence.
  Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
  Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Independent, Heaven, Soul

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• We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

  Bill Gates

  Math, Years, Two

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• To love is the half of to believe.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Love Is

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• The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

  Lou Holtz

  Use, Way, Faces

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• Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Song: Talkin' World War III Blues, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, School, Sight

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• Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

  Alan Greenspan

  Office, President, United States

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.60, Penguin

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• I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

  Harpo Marx

  Depressing, Stars, Blow

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

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• Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you with their eyes open and their lips puckered, you'd scream. It's alarming.

  Paul Reiser

  Real, Eye, Kissing

  Paul Reiser (2011). “Couplehood”, p.277, Bantam

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• A little man is running a jewelry store. A man runs in saying, Okay, take my watch, put on a new band, install a new battery, clean the case, install a new crystal, and tune it up. I will be back in a half hour for it. Thanks! and runs out the door. The little jeweler says, C-C-C-Come in?

  Henny Youngman

  Running, Men, Doors

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• Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hoe, Savages, Links

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!

  Woody Allen

  Country, Children, Paper

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• I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.

  Bob Hope

  Beautiful, Girl, Lucky

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Florida

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• Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Looks, Dinner, Sammy Davis Jr

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• I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

  Bette Davis

  Winning, Missing, Done

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

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• Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Fire, Wife

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.189, Rodale

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• The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

  Bill Maher

  Sports, Snowboarding, Smoking

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• Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

  Neil Kinnock

  Truth, Two, Wit

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• This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Responsibility, Evil, Age

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• If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2012

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