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''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
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'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
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'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
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...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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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 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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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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