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  • Billy Graham Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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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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  • Carl Gustav Jung Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carmen Busquets So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Lord George Byron So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Billy Campbell Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • George D. Prentice Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Helen Rowland Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bee Wilson Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carlo Rubbia Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • August Strindberg Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Joe Karbo Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.
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  • Barbra Streisand Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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