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• You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

  Jon Stewart

  Book, Week, Mccain

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• He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Angel, Land, Cities

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• Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

  David Limbaugh

  Past, Self, Objectivity

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• Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

  James Bovard

  Government, Numbers, People

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• In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Government, Class

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• The beginning is half of the whole.

  Plato

  Whole

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.74

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• Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

  Richard Brookhiser

  Broken, Soul, Tasks

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• Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

  Bertrand Russell

  World

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Cutting, Cities

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• You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

  Jim Rogers

  Exercise, Practice, Each Day

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• I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

  Ned Rorem

  Literature, Concerts, Walks

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• When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

  Len Wein

  Art, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

  Zainab Salbi

  Order, Issues, Decision

  "'War is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, www.truth-out.org. June 7, 2011.

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• The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

  Ariel Pink

  Girlfriend, School, Guy

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

  Alexis Denisof

  Drama, Thinking, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.

  Jeff Fahey

  Play, Feet, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Thinking, Cunning Man

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.65, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Expectations, Age

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• When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

  Peter Cundill

  Art, Individual, Form

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• I was relatively buff (before 'Avatar'), because I was working in a tanktop half the time on stage, anyway, but I just went kind of into hyperdrive after that and really worked to beat that old body into shape, to get that carcass where...I didn't want to be looking at it and see anything hanging where it shouldn't be hanging.

  Stephen Lang

  Body, Shapes, Want

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• It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Views, People, Would Be

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• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Swings, Darkness

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• The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Praise, Blasphemy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.291

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• The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hypocrite, Church, Next

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015

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• For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

  George W. Bush

  Japan, America, Alliances

  "Stupidity is not a resignable offense" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2003.

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