Fifty Quotes

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I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists… — Tamar Myers
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die… — Steve Farrar
One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the… — John F. Kennedy
Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created… — Guy Kawasaki
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared… — Bernal Diaz del Castillo
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the… — Edward Bernays
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always… — Winston Churchill
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. — Allan Gurganus
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years'… — William Banting
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. — Stanislaw Ulam
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced… — Thomas A. Edison
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson
I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want… — James Frey
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so… — Eberhard Bethge
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see… — Camille Pissarro
At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a… — George Muller

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