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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Wuthering Heights (1847) -
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
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Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
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Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
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After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
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