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“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Space Cities Half Technology Five Land Connections Towns Edges Enormous Contact Zone Wilderness Settlement Satellites Disconnection Time Zones Half Time

Author:B. W. Powe

“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

People Men Should Half Four Personality Splits Abnormal Single Person

Author:Frederick Rolfe

“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.”

“Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.”

Half Moral Balance Creatures Angel Tasks Mirrors Monsters Disaster Legends Invites Duality Tamed

Author:Suetonius

“The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.”

World Two Facts Half Air Feet Achieve Amount Essence Train Average Speed Ships Lifts Planes Expensive Engines Load Commodity Transport Aeroplanes High Speed Cargo

Author:J. R. D. Tata

“An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.”

Want Doe Half Anarchist Despicable

Author:Frank Van Dun

“The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.”

Wells Stories Half Sea Century Research Discovery Accounts Intense Fascinating Manuscripts Half A Century

Author:Geza Vermes

“The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.”

Soul Romance Half Garments Inseparable Suggesting Inarticulate Mouthpiece

Author:Walther von der Vogelweide

“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.”

“Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.”

Half Weight Balls Swings Hitting Bats Bunting

Author:Edd Roush

“Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done”

Done Life Is Games Half Finest Rail Implementation Half Life

Author:Warren Spector

“Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.”

Life Is Half Revision Small Changes

Book:Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition

Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition

“The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.”

Humans Human Beings Half Conflict Angel Proof God Love Contradiction Destined Unendurable

Author:Carl Jung

“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”

Men Years May Art Done Whole Shows Artist Understanding Half One Day Paper Draws Labor Careful Pens Sheets Small Things Great Work Great Power Whole Year

Author:Albrecht Durer

“Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.”

Art Half Poverty Doctrine Faculty Professors Rulers Cuba Marxist Liberal Arts Crackpots

Author:David Horowitz

“The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.”

Trying Years Has Beens Said Past House President White Secret Half Five Five Years White House President Obama Fence Jumping Incidents Other Half Secret Service Intruders

Author:Conan O'Brien

“When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'”

People Said Shows Chance Prayer Half Response Other Half

Author:David Letterman

“When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.”

Years May Has Beens Made Lasts Fun Realizing Interesting Mistake Half Things To Do Smoking Resolution Interesting Things Cigar Biggest Mistake Smoking Cigars

Author:David Letterman

“According to a new survey, almost half of the voters in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania say that they do not trust Hillary Clinton. Republicans immediately got together and said, 'OK, this is a huge opportunity for us. How are we going to screw it up?'”

Said Together Opportunity Half Huge Republican Clinton Voters Florida Screws Surveys Ohio Pennsylvania

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“President Obama recently said that his day is all about politics, so in the mornings he likes to watch ESPN. So if you get the feeling he's repeating himself every half hour, that's where he learned it from.”

Ifs Said Feelings President Hours Half Watches Morning Likes President Obama Half Hours Espn

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”

Men Should Young Life Is Attention Half Boys Duty Battle Aim Contact Young Man Officials Spheres Battle Of Life

Book:The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.”

Knows Earth Found Half Ignorant Enlightened Humane Merciful Refined

Book:Walker's Appeal

Source: Walker's Appeal

“Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars”

Ifs Self Half Wicked Smoking Destructive Cigar Self Destructive Smoking Cigars

Author:Curtis LeMay

“Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.”

Done Half Succeed Determination Determination To Succeed

Author:Mark Twain

“This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty”

Feelings Half Empty Surprising Half Empty

Author:Ravi Shastri

“Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.”

Thinking Country Done Enough Brain Half Lucky Deserve

Author:Blake Shelton

“He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.”

Dies Half Son Posterity

Author:Carlo Goldoni

“A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.”

World Two Christian Lying Given Sex Sides Half Essentials Female Males Humble Inequality Obedience Gates Identical God Image True Freedom Differentiation Liberators Christian Women

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.”

People Half Rational Things To Do Delusion Grants Credibility Better Things To Do

Author:PZ Myers

“Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.”

“If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Country States United Half United States Election Landslides

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.”

“Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.”

Mean Said Two Half Hell Forever Sea Goes On Rivers Fishes Corners Boat Lakes Fishing Catching Keepers

Author:G. E. M. Skues

“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.”

Source: A River Runs Through It

“.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is the name of the one person on the planet who does not know their location!”

Knows Persons Long Doe Names Hours Walks Secret Half Four Sea Planets Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Pool Location Filling Long Hours Anglers

Author:Tony Bishop

“Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.”

Ifs Should Belief Grows Common Half Cutting Sea Rivers Grateful Fishes Contrary Boat Lakes Fishing Worms Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.”

Thinking Littles Doe Reason Use Certain Differences Half Wonder One Thing Sea Rivers Wings Patterns Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Tied Wet Worn Worn Out Trout Nymphs Trimming

Author:Ray Bergman

“... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.”

Half Watches Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing This Day Dozen Unseen Creeps

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.”

Wells Enough Together Used Hours Half Sea Special Materials Rivers Patterns Fishes Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Dozen Emphasis Feathers Whips Fur Vests Midges

Author:Jack Ohman

“Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one.”

Thinking Feels Mind Stills Light Half Infinite Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.”

Writing Humans Chance Half Degrees Labour Diligence Unfinished Exactness Executors

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.”

Country Might Earth Together Half Team Television Football Tvs Seasons Tables Bottom Expected Soccer Analysis Islands Cash Cents Revenue Rivals Belgians Wigan

Author:Simon Kuper

“Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.”

Humans May Doe Two Ideas Sports Half Talent Football Depends Setting Settings Fearless Soccer Analysis Avoiding Other Half One Half Coexist Flair

Author:Edward Smith

“The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.”

Firsts Doe Goal Half Break Saws Football Shots Thirds Mad Managers Soccer Score Brutal Chairman Half Time

Author:Arsene Wenger

“This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Games Sides Half Watches Player Football China Managers Soccer Chairman Brazil Chelsea Qatar

Author:Luiz Felipe Scolari

“You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.”

Men Whole Able Film Half Understood Hollywood Granted Contempt Dozen Flash Reserves Equations

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.”

People Years Film Rooms Half Hollywood Other Half Dressed Up

Author:Bill Murray

“Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.”

Ifs Film Dark Interesting Half Hollywood Complexes Wicked Subtle Accounting Hollywood Movies

Author:Stephen Metcalf

“I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.”

People Thinking Half Hair Dresses Actresses Dressings Dressing Up Sweatpants Ponytails

Author:Selena Gomez

“When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.”

Years Happens Would Be Able Three Winning Felt Sports Half Cases Higher Finals Finished Reaching Realising Three Years Juniors Australian

Author:Amelie Mauresmo