#fifty

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country. ↗

— Brad Holland

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. ↗

— H. L. Hunt

#loveliness #man

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

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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

#active life #anxiety #bodily #business #business career

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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