Quotes with half-way

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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
    Source: "Q&A with Carlos Ghosn" published in CNN website on December 7, 2006.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Joseph Stowell Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bobby Jones 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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  • Cai Guo-Qiang Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Barber Conable Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • John Donne Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bono Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Plautus Courage in danger is half the battle.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Michele Shea Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
    Michele Shea
     
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  • Karl Albrecht Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Austan Goolsbee Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Lillian Hellman Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Christopher Morley Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Winston Churchill 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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  • George Bernard Shaw Death is for many of us the gate of hell;
    but we are inside on the way out,
    not outside on the way in.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robin Williams Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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