Fifty Quotes

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When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs… — Catherine Webb
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
You donâ€™t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. Thatâ€™s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty… — Robert Crumb
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or… — Joseph Stalin
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one… — Isaac Asimov
Iâ€™ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a… — Rand Paul
In fifty years time, the need for true psychics and conscious mediums (such as H.P.B., for instance [Helena Petrova Blavatsky]) will be very great if… — Alice Bailey
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you… — Dennis Muren
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his… — George Stigler
At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in… — Storm Jameson
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. — Mark McGwire
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,… — Pope John Paul II
If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. — R. D. Laing
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is… — Hernando Cortes
The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than… — Kenneth C. Davis
If one says 'Red' â€“ the name of color â€“ and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty… — Josef Albers
Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him. — Ardant du Picq
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayingsâ€”they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly… — Norman Douglas

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