Half Century Quotes
46 quotes by 45 authors
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made…
— Phyllis McGinley
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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used…
— Herbert Hoover
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As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we…
— Robert Bork
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Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
— David Rockefeller
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The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water…
— Al Gore
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
— Lester R. Brown
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The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to…
— Theo Colborn
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It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants, which I have…
— George Fawcett
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The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans…
— Sim Van der Ryn
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a…
— Meredith Willson
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Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September…
— Michael Shermer
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Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
— Lord Mountbatten
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Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met…
— Jerry Saltz
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A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no…
— Don Kates
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I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the…
— Donald Fagen
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The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would…
— Martin Luther King III
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
— Ralph Neas
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I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what scientists have…
— Antony Flew
Who Wrote These Half Century Quotes
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