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• My parents are retired, basically.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Parent

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• By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

  Artie Lange

  Long, Age, Plans

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• Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

  Hugh Laurie

  Dad, Army, Spain

  "Hugh Laurie: 'There's a sensual pleasure involved in making music that I just can't get from acting'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2013.

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• 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Long, Mind

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

  Nelson Mandela

  Morning, Knowing, Wake Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

  Margaret Mead

  Retirement, Retiring, Sooner Or Later

  Interview in Los Angeles on the occasion of her 75th birthday as quoted in "Newsweek", Volume 88 (p. 157), December 1976.

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• I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Hackers, Company, Knows

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview with Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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• The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Should Have, Age

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.326, Duke University Press

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• 'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Men, Sexist, Gender

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• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  Felix Dennis

  Earning, Wealth, Form

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• After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.

  Flann O'Brien

  Men, Thinking, Errors

  Flann O’Brien (2010). “The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK

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• Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

  Flann O'Brien

  Book, Eye, Expression

  Flann O'Brien (2000). “At Swim-two-birds”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

  Tom Robbins

  Land, People, Waiting

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• Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stars, Said, Breaths

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

  Agatha Christie

  Vegetables, Wish, Pity

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Book, Doctors

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• Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Order, Years

  "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Disappointment, Grief, Sight

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.34, DOSER Reads

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• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Wings

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Thinking, Elderly

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• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

  Robert MacNeil

  Retirement, New York, Thinking

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• Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

  William Banting

  Men, Order, Years

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.10

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