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Letter "F" » fifties
«The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.»
«Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.»
«Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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«So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.»
«Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: / And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.»
«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.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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«Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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