But I really want to focus on the half-full part of the glass tonight, not the half-empty.

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Dan Harris of the China Law Blog (and one of our China Tracker contributors), responding to another bullish commentary, says the glass is half empty, not half full.

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Security papers like these tend to emphasize the part of the glass that is half-empty, so many readers might not have appreciated how few people were affected, even potentially.

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The siblings were not asked to purchase extra seats on the outbound flight because it was half empty.

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All the skills and knowledge in the world will not make a successful entrepreneur of a man who thinks the future is perpetually half empty.

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Arguments over the economy and the impact of tomorrow's budget on Wales were rehearsed today - because tomorrow, the chamber will be empty - or should I say under half full, or is that over half empty?. Labour and Plaid Cymru AMs (including the Presiding Officer, though not, apparently, including Dafydd Elis Thomas) are staying away.

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So whether you see the blossoms or the vomit, a half full cup of sake or a half empty can of beer, the future of Japan is in the hands of the Japanese, not the New Economy gurus we read about in TIME, Newsweek and Fortune.

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