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Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — Unknown Author
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. — Unknown Author
Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were… — Jan Struther
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right.… — Pat Riley
REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that… — Ambrose Bierce
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to… — Robert Charles Winthrop
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words… — Wallace Stevens
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold,… — George Meredith
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American. — Mitt Romney
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor. — Jimmy Carter
Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you… — Wendell Berry
Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness. — Alan Cohen
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who,… — Mary McCarthy
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture — Arthur Koestler
When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm… — Dave Barry
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of… — A. E. Housman
I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world… — Jane Austen
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way,… — Althea Gibson
I struggled to stay on the pace there in the back half. But, at the end of the day I wanted to win this race.… — Unknown Author
If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had… — Bear Bryant
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. — Henri Matisse
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing,… — Charles Kingsley
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word… — William Jennings Bryan

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