#one half

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. ↗

— Peter Agre

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ↗

— Jane Austen

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And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

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One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. ↗

— Jay Gould

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

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. ↗

— Novalis

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I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

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