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212 Fifty Years quotes by 190 unique authors
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Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
— Thomas Szasz
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All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal…
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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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
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Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
— R. D. Laing
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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
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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
— Virginia Woolf
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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
— Jean Giraudoux
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I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing…
— George Sand
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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away…
— John Ralston Saul
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Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago.…
— George Burns
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of…
— Stephen Bayley
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Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
— Scott D. Cook
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Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years…
— C. Everett Koop
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No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing…
— Carrie P Snow
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We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than…
— Winston Churchill
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After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to…
— Thomas McGuane
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A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about.…
— Pierre-Jean de Beranger
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem…
— Walter Darby Bannard
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free,…
— John Muir
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Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have…
— Marcus Garvey
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