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• I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Quiet, Sometimes, Disappear

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• A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

  Stephen Leacock

  Trust, Bricks, Argument

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.179, University of Toronto Press

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• I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

  John Candy

  Dog, Men, Merchandising

  "Fictional character: Barf". "Spaceballs", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, War, Government Debt

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

  Max Walker

  Insomnia, Brain, Want

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

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• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Lying

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• The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White

  Freedom, Democracies Have, White

  New Yorker, 3 July 1943

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• There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, True Friend, Lying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”

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• Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

  Gene Wolfe

  Change, Echoes, Tanks

  Gene Wolfe (1986). “Soldier of the Mist”, p.114, Macmillan

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• I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Thinking, Alaska

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• What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Carpe Diem, Would Be

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• He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fashion, Hipster, Conceited

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• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  Richard Meier

  Rome, Cities, Frozen

  "Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Girl, Confused

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• America is the best half-educated country in the world.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Education, Country, America

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Design, Bread

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• I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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

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• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

  Carl Jung

  Second Chance, Thoughtful, Shrinking

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Country, Silly

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• Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

  Al McGuire

  Graduation, Basketball, Country

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• Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

  Flip Wilson

  Fun, Get Well Soon, Humorous

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• Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, Victory, Be Prepared

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346

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• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  E. W. Howe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 9, 1911.

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• Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

  Lady Violet

  Stories, Half The Story, Aisle

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