#fifty

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. ↗

— Scott Cook

#bank #bars #certificates #coins #fifty

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

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Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#fifty #good #good time #having #having a good time

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#american worker #average #average american #day #fifty

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever. ↗

— Santiago Durango

#doing #ever #fifty #riffs

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

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If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

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Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#been #debating #enrolled #existence #fifty

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things. ↗

— Michael Ironside

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