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• Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

  Bernie Sanders
  American politician (1941 - )
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• Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

  Decimus Magnus Ausonius
  Roman poet (310 - 395)
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• Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

  Dinah Mulock Craik
   
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• Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

  Thomas B. Aldrich
  American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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• Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

  The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Born down in a dead man's town;
  The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
  You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
  'Til you spend half your life just covering up.

  Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA

  Bruce Springsteen
  American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

  Omar Bradley
   
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• By night an atheist half believes in God.

  Edward Young
  British poet (1683 - 1765)
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• By night an atheist half-believes a God.

  Edward Young
  British poet (1683 - 1765)
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• Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?''

  Bette Midler
  American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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• Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

  Bobby Jones
  American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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• Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus
  Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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• Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

  Robert Half
  American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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• Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

  Og Mandino
  American author (1923 - 1996)
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• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White
  American writer (1899 - 1985)
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• Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

  François Fénelon
  French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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• Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

  Brooks Atkinson
  American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• five-and-a-half-inch
• indispensable
• condescending
• delegating
• eventually
• melancholy

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