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  • William James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Tennessee Williams Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Brad Holland Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Flip Wilson Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Plautus Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • William Shakespeare Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Half a truth is better than no politics.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Riley Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Irving Half my life is an act of revision.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • T. S. Eliot Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bob Dylan Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
    Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
    But all the people can't be all right all the time.
    I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
    I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
    I said that.
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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