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• There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

  James Herriot

  Retirement, Fall, Animal

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, Time Magazine, December 12, 2002.

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• I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

  Harry Houdini

  Country, Money, Thinking

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

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• You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

  Wilbur Smith

  Thinking, Ideas, Feelings

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• Make a sex tape, upload it, get on a reality show, release a perfume, retire. That's the new American dream.

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Country, Retirement, Long

  Diary entry, April 15, 1836.

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• On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Prayer, Light

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• I can't wait to retire from acting and just sit around and get fat.

  Zachary Knighton

  Waiting, Acting, Fats

  "'Happy Endings' Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton interview". Interview with Catriona Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. March 11, 2012.

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• I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.

  Studs Terkel

  Book

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• I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Might, Chance, Cricket

  "Tendulkar leaving the youngsters behind - Harbhajan". www.espncricinfo.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Lasts

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• Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.

  Thomas Jones

  Athlete, Hands, Play

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

  Eve Bunting

  Book, Writing, Ifs

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• I honestly can't ever imagine retiring because I don't know what else I would do - even when I'm on holiday, 70% of the time I'm working. I think I'd like to go out on the job so, ideally, 'And the winner is... Ooooh, and he's gone!'

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Holiday, Thinking

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

  James Brown

  Names, Helping, Moses

  "James Brown Gets Funky in Shanghai", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2006.

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• Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Order, Years

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Retirement, Children

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• That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

  Victor Borge

  Distance, People, Needs

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• Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

  Anita Roddick

  Voice, Alive, Way

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• I can see myself retiring from rapping, but I don't think from music. After that, I think I'd just go into some other kind of music, 'cuz I'm a worldwide fan of music, all types of music, all cultures, so I'll always be involved.

  Redman

  Rap, Thinking, Fans

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Morning, Memories, Night

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• I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Football, Thinking, Stage

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• When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

  Scott Thompson

  Stars, Writing, Fiction

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• A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.

  James Thurber

  Night, Apples, Air

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

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• I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

  Dean Smith

  Fun, Mean, Assistants

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• Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.

  David Berman

  Philosophy, Moving, Mean

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