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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 to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

  George Sand

  Wise, Kings, Race

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• People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Years, Long, People

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• One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

  William Petersen

  Responsibility, Giving, Things I Love

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• Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Today, Economy, Company

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• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  Trevor Rabin

  Song, Talking, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.

  Rodney Erickson

  Eight, Years, Lasts

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• 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.

  Joan Didion

  Twenties, Needs, Might

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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• A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Men, Faces, Responsible

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• You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

  Miriam Hopkins

  Voice, Dollars, Retorts

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• It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

  Curtis Jackson

  "50 Cent: What I've Learned" by Ross Mccammon, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

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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 so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Past, Thinking

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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 those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

  Winston Churchill

  Knowledge, Science, Years

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• If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

  Julia Child

  Smell, Should Have, Lovely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Trying, Lines

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

  Jules Verne

  Yards, Bullets, Cows

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Robur the Conqueror”, p.4, Jules Verne

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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 go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

  Thomas McGuane

  Work, Years, Significant Things

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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 opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Book, Years

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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. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Children, Pain, Fall

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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 of cubism.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Years, Able

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• Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

  Hokusai

  Years, Age, Sketching

  Hokusai Katsushika, Kojiro Tomita (1957). “Day and Night in the Four Seasons: Sketches by Hokusai, 1760-1849”

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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 chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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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, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.

  John Muir

  Nature, Freedom, Science

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.1973, e-artnow

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• If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Political

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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 preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.

  Marcus Garvey

  Successful, Race, Years

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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