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• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
  -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), "Life", 1950...
• It's a very boring time. I am not particularly maternal--it's an occupational hazard of being a wife.
  -- Anne, Princess (1950-), [1981] TV interview...
• One of the very few things a dollar bought in 1950 that it will buy today is one hundred pennies.
  But not to worry, someone is working on doing away with pennies....
• The following is from an editorial in the Midvale Observer, a local newspaper.
  "Ever since the 1950's when television sets began to appear in the average home, the rate of crimes committed by teenagers in the country of Alta has steadily increased....
• If the very old will remember, the very young will listen. -- Chief Dan George
• Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
  -- George Orwell...
• In 1950 the cheapest computers cost the same as the most expensive Rolls Royce.
  If both had developed at the same rate the Rolls would...
• I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.
  -- Jimmy Stewart in Harvey, 1950....
• If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face-- forever .
  . . And remember that it is forever. -- George Orwell -- 1984...