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Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep. — Robert Solomon

Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow. — Dean Koontz

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

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. — Mary Quant

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. — Lord Mountbatten

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming — Andrew Simms

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. — Antonio Porchia

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro

You must remind me: "Edith! Speak up! Tell the story." It has been more than half a century. I suppose it is time. — Edith Hahn Beer

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

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

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem — Cassandra Clare

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. — Svetlana Alliluyeva

Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the heart and the next. — Ken Follett

In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams. — Richard Bach

[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism. — Sean Hannity

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

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed. — Stephen Hawking

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind. — Isaac Deutscher

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. — John Bruton

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

Even now, over a half-century later, the engraved words stirred emotions in him he would rather not confront. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

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

For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones. — Max Gladstone

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier

The capitol city of Angkor Kol Ker, the heart of the Khmer empire, held architecture the likes of which Europe would not see for half a century. — Robert Doherty

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. — Li Peng

Otto Warburg had, half a century before, proposed that oxidation was the cause of many cancers. — Carl Sagan

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

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

I have a feeling I may have been born a century and a half too late, two classes too low, and in the wrong country... — Jack Rollins

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century. — Rob Portman

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. — Sophie Swetchine

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. — Henri Matisse

I want to sleep for half a second,
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive ... — Federico Garcia Lorca

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. — Thomas Piketty

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. — Philip Zimbardo