Quotes with fifty-fold

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  • Ivan Stang We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.
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  • Adolf Galland We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Stephen Leacock 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 work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Bill Condon 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 - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Henry Miller You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Kenny Rogers You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run.
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