Quotes 281 till 300 of 364.
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
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The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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The search for someone to blame is always successful.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
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The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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