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"You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill
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"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash." »Sophie Tucker
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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." »Bruce Sterling
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"There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone." »Robert Elwood Bly
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"One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it." »Knute Kenneth Rockne
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"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent." »Wendy Cope
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"For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex." »Gore Vidal
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"I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser." »Charles Schwab
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"In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything." »Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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"One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty." »Maxim Gorky
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"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry." »Alan Bleasdale
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"God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place." »J.D. McCoughey
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"Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
should nature keep me alive,
if I find the world so bitter
when I am but twenty-five?" »Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." »Marilyn Monroe
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"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." »Muhammad Ali
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"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm." »Bill Vaughan
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"You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity." »Lauren Bacall
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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar
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"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy." »H. L. Mencken
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"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves." »Charles Dickens
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"Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that." »Bill Cosby
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"We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it." »Barbara Colorose
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"It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late." »J. R. Platt
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"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little." »Max Lerner
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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." »Carl Sagan
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"I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like 'Hey, when are you going to pay me that hundred dollars you owe me' or 'Do you have that fifty dollars you borrowed' Man, quit being so cheap" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you." »Agatha Christie
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"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you." »Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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