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• I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

  Jilly Cooper

  Simple, Secret, Different

  "My favourite table". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half

  Kami Garcia

  Memories, Heart, Missing

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• He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Gold, Bars, Half

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• I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

  Andy Rooney

  Believe, People, President

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• So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.

  Jason Mraz

  Crazy, Greatness, Bats

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• I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Gone, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1439, Simon and Schuster

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• It was that surrender he needed. That complete feminine submission to every stroke, every caress, ever naughty act. Only in that submission would the subconscious trust, the bond he needed between them, come. He wanted her to trust, to know, to instinctively understand that he was more than just her lover; he was her other half. The one she told her secrets to. The one, she made secrets with.

  Lora Leigh

  Naughty, Secret, Half

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• From the moment I first saw him— saw through his stunning and impossibly gorgeous exterior to the dark and dangerous man inside— I’d felt the pull that came from finding the other half of myself. I needed him like I needed my heart to beat, and he’d put himself in great jeopardy, risking everything— for me.

  Sylvia Day

  Heart, Dark, Men

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.522, Penguin

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• Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.

  Richelle Mead

  Dad, Writing, Half

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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• A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Soul, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

  Miley Cyrus

  Half, Persons

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• Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

  Wendell Phillips

  Political, Half, Politics

  Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, C. I. H. Nichols (1854). “Woman's Rights Tracts”, p.24

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• Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

  Alan Cohen

  Lying, Community, Society

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• But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

  Melody Carlson

  Running, Fear, Winning

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook

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• People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.

  Jack Carter

  Love, College, People

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• I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

  Sally Ride

  Bad Ass, Space, People

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• I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wrath, People

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• It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

  Richard Jeni

  Marriage, Country, Divorce

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• It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Cutting, Technology

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2483, Best Books on

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• And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wisdom, Strong, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.148

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• You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Views, Water

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• Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

  George D. Prentice

  Debt Free, People, Use

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• Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

  George Santayana

  Love, Half, Firsts

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.321, Indiana University Press

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• My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Simple, Average

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