Quotes 141 till 160 of 364.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
Source: Babe Ruth: his life and time by Paul Adomites, p. 172 -
I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.
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I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
― Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
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.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.
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In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
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In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
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