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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. ↗

— Frances Wright

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One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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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 Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

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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. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

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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. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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I love being one half of a romantic couple. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

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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. ↗

— Bobby Scott

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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. ↗

— Peter Agre

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