Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of… — R.K. Narayan Copy Share Image
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, now I remember, yesterday evening we spent blathering about nothing in particular. That’s been going on now for half a century.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The West’s median income, meanwhile, has barely shifted in the last half-century.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“...and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an… — James Meade Copy Share Image
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope.… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Justice John Marshall Harlan, who famously admonished his fellow jurists and the nation as a whole: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“It was the first time in a half century that they had been so close and had enough time to look at… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
UFO mythology is similar to the message of the classical religions where God sends his Angels as emissaries who offer salvation to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
“For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have… — Aga Khan Copy Share Image
I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“In the past half century, however, an impressive body of formal theory has been erected by mathematical statisticians and economists to help… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Here is where Taylor locates the most significant shift in the post-’60s West: while ideals of tolerance have always been present in… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“There are two visions of America a half century from now. One is of a society more divided between the haves and… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Inclusion on race has been a very different journey, and I worry that for all the progress we have made, we are… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“Fantasy and science fiction are closely allied in publishing, since both categories posit worlds that are not reality. The SF editor is… — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“A half century after Nidetch’s Mallomar binges, scientists had developed a technology that could see cravings erupting, like solar flares, inside the… — Mark Schatzker Copy Share Image
“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Although, approximately 2,800 of the Kennedy assassination documents have been released, only 52 files have not been previously seen. It comes as… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
“That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image