"It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is."
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"I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred."
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"What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?"
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"You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy."
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"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect."
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"I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways."
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"Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders."
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"A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion."
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"I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II"
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"With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits."
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"There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort... The need of work is in me."
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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."
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"When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself."
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"What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?"
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"The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock."
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"Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt."
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"I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty."
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"After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now.""
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"In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue."
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"He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled."
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