Best Fifty Years Sayings
212 Fifty Years quotes by 190 unique authors
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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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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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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
— Brion Gysin
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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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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
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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
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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
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I'm fifty years ahead of my time,
— Joseph Pilates
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People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
— Mary Wesley
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature…
— John Boyd Orr
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And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier.…
— Ernest Gaines
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She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in…
— Janet Flanner
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According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europe—our home,…
— Unknown Author
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement…
— Bill Condon
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It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful…
— Antony Flew
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Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.
— Joey Ramone
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Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot…
— Unknown Author
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Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.
— Ralph Steadman
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I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every…
— Rachel Gibson
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When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or…
— Nicole Williams
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North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in…
— Barbara Demick
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At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is…
— Unknown Author
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Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.
— Paul Dourish
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Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all…
— Iain Pears
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