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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. -- Jack Gould
Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014. -- Janet Yellen
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. -- Alva Myrdal
I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon. -- Heber J. Grant
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really 'big' weighing around 350 pounds. -- Richard Kiel
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. -- John Crowe Ransom
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. -- Michael F. Easley
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. -- Charles Spurgeon
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. -- Jules Verne
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. -- Leo Tolstoy
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price. -- John Buchanan Robinson
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat. -- E. O. Wilson
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. -- Bob Schieffer
I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear. -- Steven Chu
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. -- Seneca the Elder
Loving one another is half of wisdom. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Free pyramids! Buy one, get one half buried. -- Jarod Kintz
...one half leaning in, one half pulling away. -- Jodi Picoult
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. -- Novalis
I love being one half of a romantic couple. -- Julianna Margulies
He hears but half who hears one party only. -- Aeschylus
Half a calamity is better than a whole one. -- T. E. Lawrence
I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. -- Jay Inslee
One half who graduate from college never read another book. -- G. M. Trevelyan
One's not half of two; two are halves of one. -- e. e. cummings
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. -- Georges Carpentier
One is always half mad when one is shy of people. -- Robert Walser
Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me. -- Mary Boleyn
A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. -- Oscar Wilde
One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet. -- Gene Tunney
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. -- Rumi
It was six of a half and one dozen of the other. -- Danny Higginbotham
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. -- Joseph Joubert
I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place. -- Lech Walesa
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. -- Samuel Johnson
Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other. -- Erica Jong
What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you. -- Katy Evans
An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception. -- John Rawls
When you do one thing, people think it's right or wrong. Maybe half-half. -- Li Na
Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half. -- K. Taylor
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. -- Mary Wilson Little
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. -- P.D. Ouspensky
It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. -- Greta Garbo
One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker! -- Fred Dibnah
Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population. -- Hans Rosling
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. -- Pierre Corneille
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. -- Barbara Bush
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. -- James Monroe
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. -- Jay Gould
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. -- Sarah T. Bolton
One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is welljust realistic. -- Faraaz Kazi
Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. -- Douglas Adams
My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath. -- Tanc Sade
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Faith, sir, as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself. -- Diedrich Knichkerbocker
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. -- Henny Youngman
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. -- Ray Fitzgerald
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. -- Karl Kraus
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. -- William Mathews
Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong. -- Georges Wolinski
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. -- John Leo
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves. -- Philip James Bailey
I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. -- Derek Bok
One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic. -- Faraaz Kazi
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. -- George Edward Woodberry
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. -- Thomas Hood
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. -- Elbert Hubbard
crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another. -- Ethel Smyth
One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people. -- Steve Carell
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. -- Omar Khayyam
One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness. -- Surya Das
Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse! -- John Wayne
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. -- Walter Bagehot
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. -- Alexander McCall Smith
. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . . -- Sarah Siddons
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. -- Wayne W. Dyer
"¦one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half"¦ -- Jane Austen
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. -- Wayne W. Dyer
I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two. -- Alanis Morissette
Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com. -- Ram Shriram
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit. -- Pierre Corneille
I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible. -- Michael Bloomberg
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. -- Franz Grillparzer
I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet. -- Jesse McCartney
One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all. -- Charles Lindbergh
The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race. -- Isabel Paterson
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one. -- Albert Memmi
I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991. -- Hillary Clinton
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. -- John Dryden
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. -- Stendhal
Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all. -- Saadi
Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. -- Donald Miller
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. -- Lord Chesterfield
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. -- Dean Koontz
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. -- Og Mandino
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. -- Sidney Howard
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. -- Ethan Mordden
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be. -- Gregory David Roberts
Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange? -- Margaret Cho
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. -- Isaac Mayer Wise
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. -- Dale Chihuly
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. -- Coventry Patmore
The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound. -- Tobias Smollett
I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got. -- Margaret Mitchell
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. -- George Dennison Prentice
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. -- Don Rickles
Sister, they send you out for one and you bring back two... and a half. Such a clever girl. -- Stephenie Meyer
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. -- Emily Bronte
The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other. -- Lou Macari

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