"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
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"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
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"A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life."
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"You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers."
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"If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
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"Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new."
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"For the loot, honey, for the loot."
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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
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"Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills."
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"The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest."
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"I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way."
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"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
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"I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement.""
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"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."
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"Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work."
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"The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful."
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"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil."
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"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."
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