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“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.”

Country Waiting Half Impossible Century Security Normal Israel Impossibility Council Nothing Is Impossible Security Council Half A Century

Author:Dan Gillerman

“After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.”

Two Half Century Tradition Germany Illumination Mystic Intervals Half A Century

Book:From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time

Source: From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time

“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!”

Opportunity Social Half Democracy Path Happened Century Revolution Capitalism Direct November Half A Century Social Democracy

Author:Julius Streicher

“There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.”

Ifs Has Beens Stills Real Half Century Car Ought Machines Racing Olympics Hood Slick Dodge Nascar Half A Century Auto Racing Neanderthals Wwf Chevrolet

Author:Brock Yates

“The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.”

People Important Reason Suffering Half Issues Middle Century Conflict Remains East Regions Lasting Middle East Palestinian Israeli Turbulence Israeli Palestinian Conflict Half A Century

Author:Xi Jinping

“The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.”

Wells Stories Half Sea Century Research Discovery Accounts Intense Fascinating Manuscripts Half A Century

Author:Geza Vermes

“After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.”

People Care Half Century Health Care Employers Coverage Phobia Half A Century

Author:Arnold Kling

“Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.”

Book Half Century Envy Servant Half A Century

Book:Rites of Compassion

Source: Rites of Compassion

“Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.”

People Littles Political Next Found Half Century Son Disease Jew My Son Meant To Be Triggers Anti Semitism Dormant Half A Century Little Knowledge

Author:Michael Douglas

“whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.”

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. Nicholas Thompson's is a fine account of that relationship, carefully researched, beautifully written, and evocatively suggestive of how much we have lost because such civility has become so rare.”

War Courses Lost Half Written Century Fine Cold Accounts Our Time Remarkable Cold War Civility Demonstrating Half A Century

Author:John Lewis Gaddis

“For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.”

May Half History Century Danger Integrity Constitution Unions Obligation Half A Century

Author:Zachary Taylor

“...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.”

Mean Stills Political Social Wealth Half Virtue Democracy Century Position Habit Vices Characteristics Englishmen Half A Century Subservience

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."”

“More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.”

Years Moments Half Century Spring Seven Woods Smell Wander Yellow Pale Scent Seven Years Sweetest Half A Century Pale Yellow

Author:Gertrude Jekyll

“When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.”

Giving Writing Art Stories Half Written Century Draws Art Is Sample Very Cool Half A Century

Author:Len Wein

“I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to sell. He's not a merchandiser. He doesn't know how to express his own image. He doesn't know how to create a design of his image... And I do it. I've done it all my career over half a century, and it gets better.”

Knows Doe Done Half Careers Know How Century Stupid Design Sells Average Architecture Get Better Architect It Gets Better Half A Century

Author:Julius Shulman

“With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.”

Years Two President Party Half Century Republican Protect Congress Two Years Isolated Presidency Jimmy Carter Impeachment Half A Century

Author:Robert Novak

“I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.”

Years War States Lost Half Century Security Cold Years Ago Hot Originals Debt Republic National Security Reactionaries Truman Half A Century Harry Truman

Author:Gore Vidal

“As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.”

“Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].”

Wanted America Half Century Accepted Empires Domain Cuba Imposition Half A Century

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!”

World Has Beens Stories Together Beautiful Born Cities Half Century Raised Love Story Faithful Paris Born And Raised Cities In The World Half A Century Beautiful City

Author:Christian Louboutin

“My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.”

Years Heart Born Half Century My Heart Mets Clothes Naked Shirts Chairs Tonight Lullaby Half A Century

Book:And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

“...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

Stills Eye Girl Half Century Romantic Window Raised Passing Passings Her Eyes Glances Casual Cholera Half A Century Passing By

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.”

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

Giving Made Wanted Half Century Identity Husband Giving Up Obliged Servitude Half A Century

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”

Knows Eye Lasts Grief Half Know How Century Dying Tears Sorrow Breaths Grateful Finals Despite God Knows Luminous I Loved You Cholera Half A Century Only God Knows

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.”

“The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.”

Source: Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)

“Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.”

People Made Done Government Politics Half Century Rulers Half A Century

Book:Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire

Source: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire

“Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”

Happiness Goal Business Half Greater Century Consequence Oneself Psychiatrist Want To Be Happy Half A Century Unintended Consequences Viktor Frankl

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.”

“If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

Ifs Humanity Peace Half Century Taught Inner Peace Peacekeeping Half A Century

Book:How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.”

“Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences and arts which have been made within that period. Some of these have rendered the elements themselves subservient to the purposes of man, have harnessed them to the yoke of his labors and effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble force, and extending the comforts of life to a much enlarged circle, to those who had before known its necessaries only.”

Source: Crusade Against Ignorance

“No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.”

Matter Use Half Greater Century Crime Figures Type Approach Weapons Gun Criminals Conclusion Strict Gun Control Restriction Lunatic Firearms Pistols Half A Century

Author:Colin Greenwood

“My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.”

Made Father Half Childhood Century Half A Century

Author:Antonio Porchia

“For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.”

Knows Half Century Policy Return Approach Defense Sensible Foreign Policy Consensus Cooperatives Bipartisan Half A Century Bipartisanship

Author:Hillary Clinton

“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.”

Love Opportunity Half Century Eternal Repeats Everlasting Being In Love Vow Fidelity Lasting Love Cholera Half A Century Everlasting Love

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.”

People Half Millions Century Sorrow Injury Automobile Deprivation Half A Century

Author:Ralph Nader

“In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.”

“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.”

Inspiration Half Century Determination Committed Violent Parks Protest Tenacity Rosa Non Violent Half A Century

Author:Bob Filner

“Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.”

Cities Half Modern Century Building Architecture Rome Frozen Idolatry Half A Century Frozen In Time

Author:Richard Meier

“We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming”

Half Century Global Warming Half A Century

Author:Andrew Simms

“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . .”

Long Stills Memories Half Century Remains Unions Graves Kingdoms Presidential Fallen Empires Patriot Monument Half A Century

Book:Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.”

Half Century Couple Folks Partners Christmas Merry Supper Half A Century Squires

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?”

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves a good history, and I'm happy to say that in this book it has one. The authors present a compelling, nuanced, and richly detailed account of the place from its beginnings to the present.”

Book Universe Half Century Stage Deserve Accounts Fundamentals Structure Compelling Physicist Labs Half A Century Center Stage Good History

Author:James Trefil