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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Husband, Heart, Wife

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.177

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• It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fighting, Brave, Coward

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

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• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Running, Art, Real

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• Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

  Jacob August Riis

  Struggle, Fate, Long Ago

  Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”

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• Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Lost Ones, Games, Play

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Russia, Europe, Numbers

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• It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Choices, Grace, Done

  "On Grace & Free Choice". Book by Bernard of Clairvaux, 1988.

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• O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Women, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

  Isabel Paterson

  Race, Would Be, Half

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.93, Transaction Publishers

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• The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

  Saddam Hussein

  Party, Ignorance, Past

  Saddam Hussein (2009). “Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)”, p.14, Routledge

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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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• Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

  Edward Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Cunning Man, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.52

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• I would give worlds, could I believe
  One-half that is profess'd me;
  Affection! could I think it Thee,
  When Flattery has caress'd me.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.286

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• About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

  John Quincy Adams

  Office, President, Half

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• One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.96

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• There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

  Philip James Bailey

  Disappointment, Half, Endure

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• Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Book, Writing, Wings

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.7

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• tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Women, Eye, Circles

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• I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.

  Charlotte Charke

  Gratitude, Real, Heart

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• I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

  Heber J. Grant

  Yosemite, Valleys, Half

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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. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

  Frances Wright

  Ignorance, Race, Evil

  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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• A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Half, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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