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Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
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If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress. — Francois Bourguignon Copy Share Image
The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
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I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
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I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance… — Jan Timman Copy Share Image
Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
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Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more… — Jacob Liberman Copy Share Image
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I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
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Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases. — Rose George Copy Share Image
being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even… — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
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I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
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