#fifty

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired. ↗

— William Banting

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state. ↗

— Jan Brewer

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The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact. ↗

— Herman Cain

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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better. ↗

— Harry Caray

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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those. ↗

— Bill Condon

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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. ↗

— Marie Dressler

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. ↗

— George Eliot

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