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• Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, Busy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.38, CCEL

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• If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!

  Michael Nutter

  Tattoo, Crazy, Shoes

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.115, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.

  Michael Rosen

  Writing, People, Stuff

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

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• I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell them, 'Don't get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren't one of them.' I want to get them half-size.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

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• The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

  John Mortimer

  Book, Cutting, Squad

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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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• A maid that laughs is half taken.

  John Ray

  Taken, Laughing, Maids

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.10

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• I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

  Groucho Marx

  Regret, Years, Age

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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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, Way

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• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hints, Quartets, Incarnation

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

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• It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

  Ken Kalfus

  Book, May, Typical

  "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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• You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown

  Conway Twitty

  Baby, Wire, Scare

  Song: The Clown, Album: Southern Comfort, 1982

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• It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

  Eliza Acton

  Book, Needs, Facts

  Eliza Acton (1860). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.11

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• The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

  Justin Timberlake

  Mother, Perfect, Firsts

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• Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

  Bernie Sanders

  Ideas, Saving, Able

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• Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

  Mark Twain

  Miserable, Moments, Hours

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• Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

  Mark Twain

  Evil, Good Intentions, Results

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• We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

  Hugh Downs

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  Kids, Thinking, Eight

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• Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Answers, Use

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• Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Moving, Two, Together

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• More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Spring, Pale Yellow, Years

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• When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

  Phillips Brooks

  Over You, Other Half

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• One day I was in an airport rushing to catch a plane. I was sweating and puffing when I looked to my right and saw a man walking half as fast as I was, but going faster. He was walking on a moving sidewalk. When we walk in the Spirit, eh comes underneath us and bears us along. We're still walking, but we walk dependent on him.

  Tony Evans

  Moving, Men, Airports

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