"There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work."
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"Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement."
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"I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was 70 or 60, and then all of a sudden now it's 80, and so. [...] And so you keep in shape, you keep yourself mentally in shape. And if you keep yourself mentally in shape, chances are physically it will follow suit."
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"Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option."
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"Sport teaches you so much, and you can translate that to other parts of life. But it's definitely a lot of dedication, not just for, you know, myself or the children, but the parents, the family finances, the money that you could be putting toward retirement you're using to buy tennis shoes and restring rackets and tennis lessons. So if you don't make it, then you may never retire. It's definitely a lot of risk."
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"Americans are not saving enough for retirement."
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"I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement."
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"Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement."
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"And our conception that the way we can mitigate the fact that people don't have retirement savings can be more work, or working longer, or just sort of staying in the game for longer is really a false hope. And it's a false promise."
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"Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement."
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"The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age."
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"Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not."
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"The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan."
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"I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement."
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"The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign."
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"Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law"
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"Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb."
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"It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about."
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"Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer."
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"My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak."
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