Half Quotes
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
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She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.
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If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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All people are half actors.
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I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.
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I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.
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When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
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Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.
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My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy stories which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.
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There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.
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I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.
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Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.
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Maybe he should get a three-year extension after that second half.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
