Half Quotes
5615 quotes by 3611 authors
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When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed
— Ray Allen
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In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government…
— G. Edward Griffin
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In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure…
— G. Edward Griffin
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[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is…
— Walter Russell
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We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.
— Unknown Author
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I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's…
— Chris Rock
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Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those…
— Richard Rohr
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A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes.
— Unknown Author
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a…
— George Horace Lorimer
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When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not…
— Dante Alighieri
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It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born…
— George Eliot
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Half of science is asking the right questions.
— Roger Bacon
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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire…
— Maurice Blanchot
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The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be…
— J. G. Farrell
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Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for…
— Dan Coats
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Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
— Henry Steele Commager
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I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of…
— Jacques Pepin
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The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to achieve this result,…
— Auguste Escoffier
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