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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

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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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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. ↗

— Thom Yorke

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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

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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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