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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 were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
― Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
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If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
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In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
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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 be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3 -
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
Source: (2006)
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