"There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."
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"The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave."
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"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
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"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die."
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"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
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"Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome."
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"There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!"
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"In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts."
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"Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been."
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"Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin."
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"There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness."
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"When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference."
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"Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites."
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"How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now."
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"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."
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"Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made."
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"Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell."
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"This is my 51st year, but I'm not ready to quit. I definitely didn't think when I first started back in 1963 that I'd be doing this for 50 years, but how many guys can say they do it? When retirement comes, I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be ready for it."
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"Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on."
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