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Letter "H" » Half a Life
«There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.»
«Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(
Writer)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
A-one,
an orange,
a few,
breakfast,
breakfasted,
breakfasts,
folks,
grapefruit,
Half a Life,
half life,
orange,
oranges,
pip,
pips,
squishy
«Life is half spent before one knows what life is.»
«It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.»
«Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save»
Author: Will Rogers
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About:
Life,
Time
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Keywords:
half,
Half a Life,
half life,
half time,
rushed,
rush out,
save,
spent,
The Time,
trying
«Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(
Founder,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
abnormal,
half,
Half a Life,
half life,
purpose,
robs,
second,
second half,
Second Life,
shrank,
shrinking,
shrinks,
shrink from,
shrunk,
The Second,
unhealthy
«There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(
Author,
Speaker)
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Keywords:
any,
area,
difference,
dozen,
half,
half a dozen,
Half a Life,
half dozen,
half life,
halves,
lives,
There are
«He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.»
«Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(
Logician,
Mathematician,
Novelist,
Photographer)
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Keywords:
asunder,
brow,
brows,
dreaming,
fairy,
fairy tale,
fleet,
fleetest,
fleets,
hail,
hailed,
hailing,
hails,
Half a Life,
half time,
surely,
tale,
The Brow,
The Fleet,
unclouded
«Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
adopted,
adopts,
cultivation,
cumulative,
extemporaneous,
force,
Half a Life,
half life,
imitate,
imitated,
insist,
insisted,
life force,
possession,
talent