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A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
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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 holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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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 man in love is incomplete until he has married - then he's finished.
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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
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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 poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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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 thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
The art spirit
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