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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Sebastian Faulks We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Jordan We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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  • Betty Buckley Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Goldberg What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bono What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Pat Riley When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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