Quotes with half-starved

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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.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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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)

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• 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

  Bruce Springsteen
  American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

  Omar Bradley
   
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• By night an atheist half believes in God.

  Edward Young
  British poet (1683 - 1765)
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• By night an atheist half-believes a God.

  Edward Young
  British poet (1683 - 1765)
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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?''

  Bette Midler
  American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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• Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

  Bobby Jones
  American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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• Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus
  Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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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!

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

  Robert Half
  American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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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.

  Og Mandino
  American author (1923 - 1996)
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• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White
  American writer (1899 - 1985)
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• Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

  François Fénelon
  French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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• Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

  Brooks Atkinson
  American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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• Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
  

  Henry Rollins
  American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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• Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.

  Beeban Kidron
  British filmmaker (1961 - )
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• Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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• Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

  Edward Blishen
  English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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• Either sex alone is half itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• five-and-a-half-inch
• indispensable
• condescending
• delegating
• eventually
• melancholy

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