Fifty Quotes

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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake… — J. California Cooper
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it… — Clive Bell
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world… — Norman Borlaug
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the… — Norman Borlaug
The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement… — Unknown Author
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I… — Charles Lindbergh
There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them. — Bill Klem
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves — Plutarch
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing. — Chuck Barris
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty — G. H. Hardy
In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator â€“ perhaps even… — Adrian Goldsworthy
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is… — Robert Fulton
The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart… — James Laver
We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that. — Ivan Stang
I'm fifty years ahead of my time, — Joseph Pilates
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. — Walter Dill Scott
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of… — Uwe Boll
Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. — George Axelrod

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