“If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.” IfsWorldYearsWisdomPastNextPoliticsHalfEconomyGreaterEconomicCenturyUniqueEconomicsImpactVariousLiberalismFiftyRegionsRequirementsMarxismAdaptedPluralism Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.” WorldHappensHalfPovertyGreaterAnxietyOther HalfExaggerated Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.” IfsMayStillsWholeHalfGreaterPleaseKissingLipsGrantsBoon Book:The Epigrams of Martial Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.” TwoTogetherFightingHalfGreaterRightsLandGreatnessUnderstoodHundredTreatedFortyAcresSmallness Author:Louis Riel
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child” WorldYearsMindChildrenStillsJoyHalfHistoryGreaterSadnessEventsThousandDegreesDistanceFortuneThousand YearsGood And BadOutlinesBad FortuneJoy And Sadness Author:Johan Huizinga
“There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.” WorldHumansImportantEndsDoneSeemsHalfGreaterSafeWestEmpiresIndifferentEndeavourHarbour Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.” FactsGovernmentTruthHalfDemocracyGreaterHonestyWeaponsConstantExcellenceIntelligenceTensionArsenalHalf Truth Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.” WayMadeHalfCasesRecordsGreaterDiseaseDifficultyPostsPhysiciansDiagnosisOne HalfInsurmountable Author:William Osler
“The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought.” MayTwoWould BeLife IsThreeCoursesHoursPrayerSleepHalfMorningGreaterInfluenceElementsWorshipScalesEveningPreachingOur ThoughtsSignals Author:Peter Forsyth