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I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll… — Carl Schurz
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate… — Sarah Lewis
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them… — Charles Lindbergh
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years… — John Dos Passos
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all… — Christopher Columbus
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America… — Frank B. Kellogg
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's… — Stephen Leacock
Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri… — Burt Rutan
The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor… — Ben Stein
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would… — Lewis Thomas
The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty… — Ted Turner
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to… — H.G. Wells
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord… — David Wilkerson
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not… — Thom Yorke
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals… — George Bernard Shaw
I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know… — Megan McCafferty
I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I… — Judith McNaught
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him,… — John Knowles
People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years. — Ian Fleming
You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to… — Chris Rock
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will… — Ian Mcewan
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. — Isaac Asimov
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. — Richard Yates
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved… — Henrik Ibsen

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