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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
― Austin O'Malley
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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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.
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It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
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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.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
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Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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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.
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