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  • Henry Rollins Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Michel Leiris Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Beeban Kidron Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Edward Blishen Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Either sex alone is half itself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Calvin Trillin Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Anne Tyler Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • William James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Tennessee Williams Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Brad Holland Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Flip Wilson Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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