“We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides , book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“We're all just walking each other home.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“We're not here just to take part; we're here to take over.”

Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer

"UFC Fight Night: Dublin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQiG_9yUOA4 (July 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2014

“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.”

Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena

Vol. 2, Ch. 27, § 370
Variant translation: To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims

“Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored?”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey

As quoted in "Atatürk" in Images of a Divided World (29 October 2006) http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/ataturk/
Variant translation: Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
Context: Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?