Half Quotes
5615 Half quotes by 3611 unique authors
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In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to…
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
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A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
— Robert Casey
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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing…
— Gilbert White
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Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
— Malcolm Fraser
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We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half…
— Francis Maude
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and…
— Arthur Erickson
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Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.
— Louis Leakey
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One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
— Gene Tunney
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant…
— Gabriel Lippmann
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They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as…
— Arrian
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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
— James Northcote
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He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept…
— Henry Villard
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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his…
— Henry Villard
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Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the…
— Franz Beckenbauer
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At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am…
— Sue Grafton
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The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were…
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on…
— Ashley Judd
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We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.
— Chevy Chase
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
— Ed Bradley
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