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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
I love being one half of a romantic couple.
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The weirdest thing I've seen is someone who was a male, and he changed one half of his face to be female.
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on one half of one song or something.
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
I have a doughnut every morning. The same kind, from a street cart. Vanilla frosted with sprinkles on one half, weirdly. How hard is it to sprinkle the whole thing?
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.
You had to have two VCRs, and you had to tape everything, and you had to make a choice - you either watch WWF or you watch WCW, or you watch one half of one show and the last half of the second show or whatever the case was back then.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
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 Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
I'm a twin, but only I emerged live from the womb. The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.
Prior to 'Insidious Chapter 3,' I was happy to write movies for James Wan to direct as I felt very much that I was one half of a duo. I looked at us as a team who works together and I was happy to be part of that, I was happy to effectively be the bass player in The Beatles.
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
