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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips
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.
Bill Cosby
Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.
Chris LeDoux
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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.
H. G. Wells 
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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
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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
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Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
Harry Seidler
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
Zahi Hawass
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn
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Popular Fifty Authors
Victor HugoThomas JeffersonH. L. MenckenGeorge EliotGeorge OrwellBilly SundayElbert HubbardCharles Caleb ColtonJosh BillingsCharles BaudelaireAdlai E. StevensonBaltasar GracianDennis RodmanSamuel GoldwynGore Vidal
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