My critics feel there was a lack of fairness in the opera, because the Palestinians are treated with romantic harmonies and choruses of longing, and the Jews are treated unfairly because all we hear about them are their bodily ailments. And, yes, you do hear about Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer's bodily problems, like their hip replacements, because that's exactly the sort of thing that a retired person on a cruise would talk about.
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My critics feel there was a lack of fairness in the opera, because the Palestinians are treated with romantic harmonies and choruses of longing, and the Jews are treated unfairly because all we hear about them are their bodily ailments, ... And, yes, you do hear about Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer's bodily problems, like their hip replacements, because that's exactly the sort of thing that a retired person on a cruise would talk about.
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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.
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Hard work makes good luck.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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He must have retired five or six times. He just can't keep his hand out of politics.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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My wife is retired and encouraged me to retire while my health was good so I could enjoy these years.
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After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
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