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  • Bart Starr It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Joseph Conrad It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ben Elliot It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gene Wolfe Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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  • Buddha Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not benefit me. Even by the falling of waterdrops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Matthew Arnold Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Betty Smith Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
    Betty Smith
    American writer (1896 - 1972)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Victor Hugo Loving is half of believing.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Dorothea Brande Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Woollcott Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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