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I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

"Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

Song: Half a Man, Album: Born Again

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.110, Harvard University Press

When half-gods go The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

"GOP Turns Consumer Advocate on Obamacare" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2013.

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.89, SPCK

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

Phyllis Schlafly (2016). “The Final Columns of Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.5, Creators Publishing

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis”, p.92, Faber & Faber