Quotes with half-way

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  • Carl Honore In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Barack Obama In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Barry Watson In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
    Barry Watson
     
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  • Arthur C. Brooks In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Carl Rogers In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Alice Munro In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • John Adams In politics the middle way is none at all.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bert Lance In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Cass Sunstein In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Franz Kafka In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Beilby Porteus In sober state,
    Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
    The venerable patriarch guileless held
    The tenor of his way.
    Source: Death: A Poetical Essay
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Ben Marcus In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Bridgit Mendler In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Albert Einstein In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alan Greenspan In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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