Fifty Quotes
803 quotes by 671 authors
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes
— Benito Mussolini
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The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his…
— Dizzy Dean
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It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
— Unknown Author
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The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty…
— Milton Friedman
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A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
— Norbert Wiener
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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.
— Peter Schiff
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Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee…
— Brian Tracy
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I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people…
— Claude Chabrol
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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the…
— D. A. Carson
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as…
— Ted Nelson
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Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course.…
— Stella Gibbons
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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
— Brion Gysin
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I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will…
— Edward R. Murrow
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A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and…
— Shirley Temple
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If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance…
— Michael Badnarik
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
— William McKinley
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I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people…
— Richie Ashburn
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Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit.…
— Denis Waitley
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