#one half

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dangerous #dangerous thing #half #ignorance #knowledge

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. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ↗

— Jane Austen

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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. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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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. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#conscious thought #feet #mind #one half #stay

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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One half who graduate from college never read another book. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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