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  • Gracie Allen When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
    Gracie Allen
    American comedian (1895 - 1964)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Andrew Cohen When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Philip James Bailey Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
    Festus (1813) A Country Town
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • John Milton Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
    Paradise lost (1667)
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Billy Beane Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bum Phillips Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Josh Billings Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Barry Cornwall Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • William Blake You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Yogi Berra You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Bush You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Maxwell Maltz You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Henry David Thoreau You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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