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“We cannot enter the realm of the heart where one gender, representing half of the human race, is subordinated, suppressed, or forgotten. In fact, such a system negatively affects both men and women, holding us all back from true integration, collaboration, and union.”

Men Inspirational Humans Heart Facts Race Half Men And Women Unions Forgotten Gender Human Race Realms Collaboration Integration Representing

Book:The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love

Source: The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.”

Inspirational Giving Shows Jobs Speak Half These Days Decent Deaf

Author:Liz Carpenter

“If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.”

Ifs Women Half Sun Missing

Author:Gloria Jones

“Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.”

People Thinking Way Needs Helping Feelings Women Half Psychology Need Help

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.”

Book Night Walks Half Findings Humorous Excellence Stealing Excellent Etc Trends Shopping Dozen Cleaning 80s Bookstores Malls Grasping Sellers Racks Personnel Best Sellers Garfield

Author:Dave Barry

“Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.”

Ifs Needs Important Play Able Games Lost Half Special Balance Creating Video One Half Lost Ones

Author:Hidetaka Suehiro

“My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.”

People Two Stories Shows Problem Hours Party Half Television College Industry Commitment Backgrounds Lifelong Irritated Half Hours

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.”

Faces Turns Half Wife Doors Dinner My Wife Broke Flats Plates Like Something Cruise Cabins Spaghetti Keystones

Author:Art Donovan

“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.”

“The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.”

Years Two Party Half Months Discipline Iron Half A Year Bolsheviks

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.”

Able Fall Three Half Class Five Teacher Approach Scared

Author:Amanda Beard

“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”

Funny Sides Dark Half Cutting Empty Lips Glasses Teeth Sarcastic Pessimism Dark Side Cracked Half Empty

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.”

Two Half Century Tradition Germany Illumination Mystic Intervals Half A Century

Book:From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time

Source: From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time

“Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.”

Giving Whole Moving Sex Numbers Half Materials Reader Scene Negative Hot Mess Cute Heat Bloody Kitten Draining Good Sex

Author:Sandra Newman

“Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass, electric charge and so on...but how could they possibly have a cause and effect relationship with bodies that are said to have these, and only these physical properties?”

Mind Said Soul Body Causes Half Effects Mass Property Splits Electric Cause And Effect

Author:Austin Dacey

“I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.”

People Thinking Want Kind Mean Country Seems Half Cases Gun Climate Currents Scary Aliens Owners Rhetorical Gun Owners

Author:Josh Marshall

“Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it”

Giving Half Cents

Author:Glenn Frank

“In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.”

Able Half Car Horse Holes Toyota

Author:Randeep Hooda

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

Numbers Half Europe Russia Fourth One Half

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic”

“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”

Form Order Bits Imagination Common Half Saws Fronts Creation Daughter Function Common Sense Aspiration Dozen Delightful Faded Multiplicity Amiable Parlor Scandalous Dandy

Author:Vera Nazarian

“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.”

Looks Fall Water Half Degrees Computer Projects Models Productions Disaster Nine Australia Darling Habitat Food Production Vertebrates Disaster Movie

Author:Jeff Goodell

“It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.”

Would Be Choices Born Half Huge Died Absolutes Size Tunnels

Author:Carol Rifka Brunt

“We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain”

Littles Feelings Pain Half Pieces Other Half Feeling Bad

Author:Paulo Coelho

“How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.”

People Thinking Knows Said Stills Real Ends Can Do Half Mouths Affair Spread Classic Gossip Dozen Untrue Stanley Spartacus

Author:Michael Scott

“I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.”

Shows Half Watches Saws One Time Cosby Show

Author:August Wilson

“If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?”

Ifs Half Safe Bars Chocolate Sugar Other Half Snickers Chocolate Bars

Author:Wakas Mir

“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.”

Stories Father Half Progress Century Drug Achievement Research Accounts Wide Fascinating 20th Century Historic Enjoyable Biomedical

Author:Arvid Carlsson

“In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.”

Thinking World Seems Might Christian Winning Christ Religious Half One Thing Modern Goes On Fellows Irony Hypocrisy Approval Hearted Advocating Demoralizing Half Hearted

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!”

Half New York Hysterical

Author:Erin O'Connor

“Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.”

Men Way Action Half Dreamer Half Way

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.”

Source: The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry

“Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.”

Long Seems Joy Cities Half Sky Fans Fields Blessing Bird Conscious Grateful Green Missions Gentle Settling Cheeks Breeze Azure Green Fields Sojourners

Author:William Wordsworth

“This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.”

“Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.”

Men Kind Made Stuff Natural Half Strange Transcending Centaurs

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.”

Men Has Beens War Courses Ability Half Wife Impossible Achievement Ordinary England My Wife Brilliant Aids Devoted Ordinary Man Marry Me Better Half

Author:Winston Churchill

“It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.”

Ifs Doe Done Whole Choices Half Grace Contribution Peculiar Qualifications One Half Free Choice

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.”

May Children Night Causes Parent Hours Half Summer Bible Letters Affection Warm Gentle Fifty Passages Sixty Remarks Dew Indignation Hailstorms

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.”

Giving Persons Values Loses Half Moral Relation Charity Giver Moral Values

Book:The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.”

Mind Reason Attention Half Knowledge Teaching Argument Ears Yield Inches Shallow Traitor Attention And Respect

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs May Littles Shows Light Would Be Levels Half Flow Errors Faults Surface Wit Glad Bites Pearls Scarce Straws Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”

Kind Lost Women Half Design Devil Female Fairs Hunting

Book:Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

“Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.”

Earth Half Teach Dog Life Changing Sanity Keepers

Book:Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives

Source: Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives

“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.”

“There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.”

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

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