Other Half Quotes - Page 5

• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Integrity, Generations, Half

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Half, Cry

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Chourmo”, p.100, Penguin

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• For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Simple, Israel

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.4240, e-artnow

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• There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Half, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

  Denis Diderot

  Religious, Men, Blood

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• Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

  Mike Greenberg

  Travel, Home, Mexican

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• The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

  Jennifer Echols

  Dog, Boys, Practice

  Jennifer Echols (2013). “Levitating Las Vegas”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.

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• The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Government, Suing

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• I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Home, Eye, Years

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

  Apolo Ohno

  Jobs, Dad, Curiosity

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• It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Writing, Play, Giving

  "Something Just Beyond Words". Interview with Molly McArdle, logger.believermag.com. April 25, 2014.

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• I guess Trump is joke-worthy more than ever because he's the president. I think Donald Trump being president is more about where the country is at as opposed to it actually being about Donald Trump. It feels like going to couples therapy and really finding out how your other half feels.

  Michael Che

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

  Emily Carr

  Mistake, Pups, Half

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.54, D & M Publishers

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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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• Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

  Franz Kline

  Boston, Worry, Use

  Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”

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• . . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

  Sarah Siddons

  Believe, Half, World

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• Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

  Vicky Beeching

  Wisdom, Reality, Justice

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• Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

  Billy Tauzin

  Water, Louisiana, Half

  "Why Houston's prospects for recovery look good - unlike some other hurricane-battered cities" by Doug McKelway, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2017.

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• Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.

  Debra Messing

  Thinking, Light, Goal

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

  Eric Bana

  Destiny, Thinking, Half

  "Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 13, 2009.

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• The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded that he should take plural wives, to add to his glory... Joseph asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.

  William Law

  Husband, Giving, Wife

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• When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

  Andrew Cohen

  Together, Half, Completeness

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• Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

  Samuel Butler

  Nature, Taken, Mean

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4256, Delphi Classics

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• Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

  Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Jobs, Educational

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