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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Art Linkletter In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Paul Auster It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Albert J. Beveridge It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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  • Helen Rowland It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Rowan It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • George Gurdjieff 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.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Austin O'Malley It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Augustus Hare 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.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton 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.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski 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.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ben Bernanke It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bart Starr It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Joseph Conrad 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.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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