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Letter "R" » retirement
«Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth»
«The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.»
Author: Primo Levi
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Author,
Chemist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
ambivalent,
bond,
emigration,
exile,
His country,
just in case,
One Country,
retirement,
similar,
ties
«There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.»
«The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime»
«Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.»
«The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.»
«The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating......and you finish off as an orgasm.»
Author: George Carlin
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Actor,
Author,
Comedian)
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About:
Humor,
Life
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Keywords:
alcohol,
at parties,
baby,
Baby and I,
backwards,
back end,
back off,
be old enough,
bonus,
bonuses,
cycle,
cycles,
cycle on,
cycling,
died young,
do drugs,
drugged,
drugging,
drugs,
ends,
End of time,
finish,
finish off,
floated,
floating,
forties,
forty,
get at,
get it,
Get Ready,
get tough,
gold,
go back,
go to,
grade,
graded,
grades,
grade school,
grading,
high,
Higher Grade,
high life,
high school,
high time,
kicked,
kick off,
kick out,
kick up,
kid,
Kid The,
live in,
mean life,
months,
nine,
Nine Lives,
Nine Months,
old age,
old gold,
old school,
old times,
orgasm,
orgasms,
Our Party,
out-of-the-way,
Out of the Womb,
party,
Partying,
ready,
responsibilities,
retirement,
school,
school year,
spend,
take time off,
Taking Off,
think back,
time off,
tough,
Tough Enough,
unfair,
watch,
womb,
work off
«The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.»
Author: John Milton
(
Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
academe,
attic,
grove,
In a Grove,
olive,
Plato,
retirement,
thick,
Trilling,
Trills,
warble,
warbled,
warbling
«The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(
Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Appearance
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Keywords:
agitate,
agitated,
agitates,
agitating,
conjecture,
conjectures,
first appearance,
monarch,
monarchs,
performances,
pit,
prognostication,
retirement,
theatrical,
theatricals,
the pit
«Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial»