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• Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

  Johnny Vegas

  Wise, Block, Said

  "Tears of a clown" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2006.

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• One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Mean, Average

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Dog, Horse

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Giving, Able

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

  Elizabeth Banks

  Crazy, Long, Use

  "Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz and Wes Bentley THE HUNGER GAMES Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

  David Rakoff

  Men, Years, Mind

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• I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.

  Adelle Davis

  Home, Dark, Garden

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• In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.

  Laurie Garrett

  Age, Care, Disease

  Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9

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• On your birthday today, don't
  Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect
  As you've reached 60, you want to be happy,
  Trust me, you'll be depressed.

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Looks, Want

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• I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.

  Sherry Lansing

  Retirement, Past, Two

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• I think that life expectancy over the last 10 years has increased dramatically. You're living longer.

  Ken Moelis

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States of America is 43 years of age. A lesbian can only expect to live to be 45 years of age. Homosexuals represent 2 percent of the population, yet today they're carrying 60 percent of the known cases of syphilis.

  Rod Parsley

  Average, Years, America

  "Gay Bowel Syndrome? Yeah, Right" by David Holthouse, www.alternet.org. February 8, 2006.

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• You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Dream, Life Is Short, Thinking

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• One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cutting, Average

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1988.

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• He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

  Terry Pratchett

  Three, Hedgehogs, Six

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.74, Random House

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• Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Educational, Australia

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

  Dan Buettner

  Life, Years, America

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• SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Acquisition, Acronyms

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• The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Radiation, Mars

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• The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live.

  Donald Tsang

  People, Friendly, World

  "CE speaks at Business for Clean Air' Joint Conference". www.info.gov.hk. November 27, 2006.

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• ...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

  Jacob Sullum

  Impact, Casual, Exposure

  Jacob Sullum (1999). “For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

  Betty Friedan

  Motherhood, Years, Names

  "The Fountain of Age". Book by Betty Friedan, Preface, 1993.

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Busy, Telling The Truth, Truth Is

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• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Payroll Tax, Benefits, Trends

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