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“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

Years Has Beens Past Ten Hundred Asking Management Indian Fifty

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.”

Thinking Needs Years Doe Today Past Science Common Study Students Paper Research Years Ago Scientist Originals Nuclear Contemporary Substance Fifty Agreement Papers Physicist Textbooks

Author:C.P. Snow

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.”

Years Wells Important Light Past Levels Common Share Prove Standards Defined Reasonable Fifty Representatives Profitable Portfolios Past Experiences

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Ifs Years Humans Kind May Moments Past Left Black Seeing Fit Ten Fifty Sixty Memorial Mock

Author:Eric Rucker Eddison

“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.”

Years Past Expression Scientist Available Fifty Conventions Over The Past

Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

“If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.”

Ifs World Years Wisdom Past Next Politics Half Economy Greater Economic Century Unique Economics Impact Various Liberalism Fifty Regions Requirements Marxism Adapted Pluralism

Author:Robert Dickson Crane

“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”

Age Past Faces Figures Aging Fifty Your Face

Author:Barbara Cartland

“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.”

World Years Humans Heart Art Two Past Sacrifice Battle Thousand Skins Weight Victim Heavy Warrior Fifty Two Years Mexico Jaguars

Author:Biloine W. Young

“Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.”

Years Looks Government Past Goal Program Opposites Fifty Warfare Government Programs

Author:Peter Drucker