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

— Marie Dressler

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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

— H. L. Hunt

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