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  • Art Rooney Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Jane Austen One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. C. Forbes One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
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    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Epictetus Only the educated are free.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Amiel Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Ted Cook Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
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  • Bell Hooks Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Groucho Marx Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Brad Henry Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Al McGuire Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
    Al McGuire
    American basketball coach and broadcaster (1928 - 2001)
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  • Bill Burr Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bob Filner Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Peter Ustinov Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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