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• Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sunshine, Greatness, Men

  "Selections from Carlyle".

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• Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

  Jason Bateman

  Guy, Watches, Half

  "Career Watch: Jason Bateman Gets Down with his ‘Bad’ Self" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2014.

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• An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

  Shailer Mathews

  Believe, Half, Persons

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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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• 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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• 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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• I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Believe, Knowledge, Half

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• Mankind are very odd creatures:
  one half censure what they practice,
  the other half practice what they censure;
  the rest always say and do as they ought.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Practice, Half, Odd

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

  Suzanne Vega

  Kids, Reality, Fearless

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• One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

  David Ogilvy

  Half, Reputation, One Half

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 109, 1983.

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• I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme
  I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes

  Gift of Gab

  Song, Eye, Looks

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• Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will... you'll never get over him. You're going to wake up one day and realize what you've done, and you're going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.

  Jamie McGuire

  Break Up, Breakup, Regret

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• One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Hopeless Romantic, Realistic, Wells

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• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  Walter Murch

  Jobs, Editing, People

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com.

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• I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

  Maya Rudolph

  People, African American, Black

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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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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• If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

  Harriet Martineau

  Power, Civilization, Half

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.156

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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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• "My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Brother, Knights, Important

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• Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Funny, People, Dying

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• When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, Doctors, America

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• Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

  Mark Batterson

  Half

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.48, Multnomah

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• I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

  Billy Corgan

  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Wife, Half

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• I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Memories, Writing, Creativity

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.41, Open Road Media

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