#half

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#asset #based #economic #economic growth #experience

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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A wise man's question contains half the answer. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#contains #half #man #question #wise

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#born #halfway #his way #i #i was born

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#also #beauty #element #half #imagination

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. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#cracked #cut #dark #dark side #empty

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. ↗

— Horace

#foot #half #his #long #words

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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