“...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.” IfsShouldTryingFirstsMatterLostStrongLossHalfPlansHonestFiguresFailurePrideBattleProgramWeakPerseveranceStartingConnectedSpotsShortcomingsAppraisalStrong FaithWeak Spots Author:Sue Sanders
“In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.” MayHappensOrderWishViewsHalfPiecesTelevisionProgramTreatsTreatedRememberedInterviewsChimes Author:Karen Armstrong
“Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentNumbersHalfAcceptingWillingProgramAidsDependentPensionPaychecksHandoutsGovernment Aid Author:James Bovard
“I started acting when I was 13, but it really wasn't my plan. The actual decision to become an actor was when I was 17, after I didn't act for half a year because I came to an exchange student program in the US, and I realized how much I missed it.” YearsActorsDecisionActingHalfPlansStudentsProgramI RealizedHalf A Year Author:Meital Dohan
“Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons program over the next decade or two, it adds significantly to it. So it's somewhere around $600 billion. We call for approximately cutting that in half and instead putting those dollars into true security here at home.” TwoHomeNextHalfCuttingSecurityExampleRight NowWeaponsProgramDollarsAddDefenseDecadesNuclearBillionsBudgetsDepartmentNuclear Weapons Author:Jill Stein
“I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I used in a previous book, Alias Grace. Some of us also put up money in order to save the heirloom herd of cows there. So I own half a cow!” PeopleBookUsedOrderHalfGraceInvolvedActivityProgramPrisonJailFarmsCowsClosingHerdsHeirloomsAliases Author:Margaret Atwood
“The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.” MindWellsLongStillsWaitingHoursSpaceHalfGoneAirMinutesBenefitsLong TimeSittingProgramFellowsRadioEightMilesStatementsFlightAviationAirplaneRecallsAstronautStar GazingLashesPadsSitting StillMind BogglingWorth The Wait Author:Robert Crippen
“Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'” PeopleLooksWarActorsStarsHalfCompanyReturnSixProgramTwentiesTheaterCreditSecondsEnviousI Smile Author:Caroline Blakiston
“Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” CommonHalfProgramComplicatedProgrammingAdsBugsComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageImplementationLisp Author:Philip Greenspun