One Half Quotes - Page 4

• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

  Ernestine Rose

  Principles, Half, Slavery

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Women, Giving, Society

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• The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

  Jules Verne

  Distance, Future, Moon

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the moon/De la Terre à la lune (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue)”, p.112, Jules Verne

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• Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Science, Hands, Use

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.

  Surya Das

  Unity, Doe, Half

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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• Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive.

  Catherine Ponder

  Law, Giving, Receiving

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• I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Grace, Bed

  Charles H. Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons on Great Prayers of the Bible”, Kregel Academic

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• All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.

  Geena Davis

  Running, Men, Other Half

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• No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Men, America

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• In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet.

  Judy Bonds

  Jobs, War, Home

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• I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

  Richard Kiel

  Two, Feet, Guy

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• Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

  Theodore Gordon

  Past, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

  Frances Wright

  Power, Race, Important

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• ... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.

  William Beebe

  Stars, Ocean, Eye

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• No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

  Manmohan Singh

  Practice, Community, Humanity

  Manmohan Singh, Smita Vats Sharma, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2005). “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: June 2007 to May 2008”

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• Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

  Marquis de Sade

  Evil, Half, Littles

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• What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hypocrite, Errors, Support

  "Notes on the State of Virginia". Book by Thomas Jefferson, 1781-1783.

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• Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Two, Office, Bed

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• One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Sweat, Half

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.16

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• One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

  Pierre Corneille

  Half, Other Half, Graves

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iii, 1636.

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• ...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  People, Half, Littles

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Wisdom, Women, Recovery

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• I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Ocean, Thinking

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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