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We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. -- John Bruton
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. -- Ralph Neas
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more. -- Martin Seligman
I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century. -- Michael Eric Dyson
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. -- Arthur Erickson
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets. -- Thomas Steinbeck
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. -- Robert Byrd
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues. -- James Meade
Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage. -- David Frost
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. -- Ben Shapiro
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. -- Henri Matisse
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. -- James Monroe
[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism. -- Sean Hannity
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. -- Pierre L. van den Berghe
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. -- Antonio Porchia
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. -- C.P. Snow
Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century. -- Gustave Flaubert
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century, -- Herbie Hancock
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. -- Philip Zimbardo
Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject. -- Kate Christensen
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming -- Andrew Simms
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. -- Li Peng
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. -- Lord Mountbatten
We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem -- Cassandra Clare
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. -- Ernst W. Mayr
Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact. -- Louie Psihoyos
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. -- David Rockefeller
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED -- William Rathbone Greg
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses. -- Alasdair Gray
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. -- Richard Meier
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. -- Svetlana Alliluyeva
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. -- Tom Wolfe
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. -- Ralph Neas
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. -- Sophie Swetchine
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. -- George W. Bush
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people. -- Ralph Nader
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows. -- Rob Reiner
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor. -- Jimmy Carter
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. -- Henry A. Wallace
After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves. -- Arnold Kling
I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing. -- Billy Graham
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. -- Lester R. Brown
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value. -- Simone Weil
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well. -- R.K. Narayan
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -- Dale Carnegie
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. -- Bob Filner
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. -- Nick Hornby
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget. -- Irena Sendler
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic. -- Rick Larsen
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century. -- Bob Colacello
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict. -- Chen-Ning Yang
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict. -- Chen-Ning Yang
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual. -- Lauren Groff
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. -- Mike Ferguson
I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century. -- Alice Dreger
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters. -- Kenzaburo Oe
Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened! -- Julius Streicher
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive. -- Charles Lindbergh
Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths. -- Patricia Churchland
Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance. -- Jerry Saltz
From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council. -- Dan Gillerman
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies. -- N. T. Wright
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today. -- Bill Ayers
No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries... -- William J. Clinton
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. -- Michael Shermer
A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have. -- Karen Abbott
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks. -- Anna Quindlen
Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never. -- Denis Hayes
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. -- Mary Augusta Ward

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