Quotes with half-right

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
    Source: Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Dorothea Brande A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Bee Wilson A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Ramsey Clark A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
    Ramsey Clark
    American lawyer and activist (1927 - )
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  • Jacques Maritain A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Butler A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Mary McCarthy 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.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Plato A well begun is half ended.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabriel A wise man's question contains half the answer.
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  • Malcolm de Chazal A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Gaston Bachelard A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bill Dedman 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.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Robert Half Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Billy Dee Williams Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Joe E. Lewis Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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