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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The Conquest of Happiness (1930) -
Born down in a dead man's town;
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA -
But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
And can't stand the company.
Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself
And turn his heart to stone.
Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell
And I feel like I'm comin' home.Lucky Town (1992) Better Days -
By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?''
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
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