You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations ... until they were all litigated out.


Antonin Scalia

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Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.
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You have three election days for people scattered over 50 states.
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To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of t...
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We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage.
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Work hard, play hard, stay hard. I coined it first back 1993.
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Whoever builds the first elevator will have a virtual monopoly on all future ones. The political and...
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How we approach mining today versus 50 years ago is altogether different.
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Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps a...
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a...
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For him not to even break (50 percent), not to even approach it, says all you need to say. In five '...
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It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president...
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Insurance companies do charge very significantly different prices. You can easily pay 50% more if yo...
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Choosing between the 50 m and 100 m is like choosing between your children. I have favourites on dif...
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There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just...
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Thee only person I am better than is the one I was yesterday.
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[Conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsbur...
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They took our 50 because we were chasing the president and we got out of there right away, ... The o...
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On this memorable day, we were honored to witness 50 petitioners, representing 24 different countrie...
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We put out 50 different stakes in the pasture with their color code on it and each team member had t...
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probabi...
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% pro...
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Some towns have different fire ordinances, so residents should make sure they call the fire departme...
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When we win the nomination, we'll be president of all 50 of the United States.
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People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of cha...
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People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems...
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We're hoping to cover different decades over the last 50 or 60 years. We're trying a musical theme.
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Basically 50 and Scrappy were already good friends, ... While we were out on tour, 50 came to me wit...
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Different states have different attitudes on this,
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It's extremely different. I can't do 50 percent of the things inside that I'm doing outside with my ...
MATT PETHERICK
I always expected to make it to 50, I just didn't expect to get there so soon...
DARRON C PITMAN
More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2...
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The 50/50 rule means that when people meet you for the first time, before you ever speak, there is a...
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Tahiti's absolutely gorgeous. My favorite part of it is how blue the water gets. There's, like, 50 d...
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With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I ha...
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There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, i...
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We deal with about 50 different Amish families from Ohio who hand-make all our furniture. We have 40...
JOHN MANCINI
If they want to play on hard court instead of grass, we have a 50-50 chance.
BRAHM DUBIN
We could have had 50 points in the first half.
JOSEPH GARCIA
Low lunar orbit, at the precision mapping altitude of 50 kilometers, is substantially different from...
JIM WATZIN
I hope more Japanese players could come out even among the top 50.
AI SUGIYAMA
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the ...
JOHN HUTTON
I wish he could have made it to see 50 years.
BLAIR SCHRADER
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and ...
ROBERT TOOMBS
You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch...
50 CENT
I love you like a fat kid loves cake.
50 CENT
I'm the type to swallow my blood 'fore I swallow my pride.
50 CENT
Don't much good come from me, but my music
Is a gift given from God so I'm gonna use it.
50 CENT
Everyone else is just mad 'cause I came from the bottom wthout them.
50 CENT
Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream.
50 CENT
Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.
50 CENT
Sleep??? Sleep is for people who are broke.
50 CENT
I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But ...
50 CENT
Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change
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That's when I realized that as long as you don't broadcast your beefs, you can get away cold with mu...
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How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactl...
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one could make 50 every day.
ALBERTO FUJIMORI
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
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It's like going to buy potato chips at the store. You've got 50 different kinds to buy, and if your ...
EDWARD HOOK
Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they hav...
ECKHARD PFEIFFER
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'...
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There were about three different times he could have pulled out, and he didn't. He's beyond exceptio...
LINDA PROTZMANN
My mate is really, really weird.

She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay.
SHAY SAVAGE
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do al...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do a...
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We specifically pushed for all 50 states to participate in (the national test) to shed some light on...
SUSAN ASPEY
If you start at zero, 50 percent is only 50 cents,
LARRY PONEMON
We told them we could take 50,
DON LEWIS
I think maybe we just ran out of some steam. They were hitting some shots, they shot close to 50 per...
JEN MILNE
In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first n...
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It's something different, something our grandparents used to do. A lot of grandparents used to roll ...
ISRAEL CRUZ
In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
TAVIS SMILEY
You can't get caught up in what they're trying to do. You just have to play your coverage when it's ...
DRAYTON FLORENCE
The goal is to see a recovery in ad revenue and to have a 50-50 split as they grow other businesses.
JEFF FIELER
Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-t...
GINNI ROMETTY
It's 50-50,
DAVID HOYLE
Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chi...
RUSSELL SMITH
We were down 15-10 at halftime. The Roswell coach told me if you could hold them under 50 points, th...
BOB MCINTYRE
It was a 50-50 ball that came off the keeper, ... I saw it and went all out for it, and just hoped i...
CHRIS PATTERSON
There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-li...
MARK BARROWCLIFFE
It's common if you have one [form of] the disease, you have several. They all have different cures, ...
DARYL HALL
I still think there's a better than 50-50 chance they will raise rates again.
DAVID ORR
Rural state highways are where about 50 percent of the states traffic fatalities occur.
STEVE VITOLO
I figured we had a 50-50 chance of making it to the states. We felt we had depth but we didn't know ...
BEN RUSSELL
All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, M...
JOHN ENGLER
It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start...
JAMES E. ROGERS
It's 50-50. If after 15 or 30 minutes, you see us leave.
DAVID HOYLE
They're all quite different and unique and they all have slightly different demographics.
DAMON WHITESIDE
You're not considered different until you have made a difference.
ANDONI GARCIA
There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly...
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