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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George Eliot
You
Down
Enough
Seventy
Between
Always
Years
Being
Them
Turn
Asked
Fifty
Decrepit
Hardest
Things
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Carl Jung
Life
Morning
Human Being
Old
Own
Seventy
Significance
Must
Would
Had
Merely
Longevity
Also
Years
Human
Pitiful
Being
Eighty
Cannot
Afternoon
Meaning
Human Life
Certainly
Grow
Species
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome
War
Gone
Our
Seventy
Battlefield
Over
Like
Dead
Friends
Survive
Going
Being
Dying
Engaged
Amongst
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
Great
You
Change
Age
People
Old
Confusion
Changed
Changes
Secret
Seventy
Share
Great Secret
Course
Causes
Years
Eighty
Really
Old People
Body
Your
Your Body
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian
Lion
Man
Dog
Nothing
Thirty
Seventy
Camel
Sixty
Eighty
Ape
Fifty
Forty
Twenty
Serpent
Peacock
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Dorothy Thompson
Nature
Tired
Age
People
Strong
Old
Some People
Energy
Others
Seventy
Distribute
Some
Born
Equally
Does
Years
Going
While
Measured
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.
Rodney Dangerfield
Hope
Man
Fight
World
Seventy
He
Knows
Still
Reform
Wants
Full
Twenty
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sometimes
Old
Young
Seventy
Hopeful
More
Cheerful
Years
Than
Far
Forty
Forty Years
If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
Loretta Swit
Good
You
Age
Mother
Appropriate
Seventy
New
Look
Nonsense
Go
Go For It
Lived
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. Edwards Deming
Work
Day
Nothing
Seventy
Percent
American
Which
Average
Average American
Worker
Fifty
American Worker
Interruptions
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
Johannes Tauler
God
Day
You
Will
Fall
Too
Seventy
Rise
Return
Times
Often
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.
Jonathan Sacks
People
Feeling
Anti-Semitism
Think
Seventy
See
Scary
Scary Thing
Fair
Return
Always
Isolated
Israel
Years
Very
Get
After
Which
Sensing
Holocaust
Europe
European
Even
Media
Thing
Treatment
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
Truth
Hope
You
Presidency
Seventy
Statesman
Given
He
Always
Up
Get
American
After
Turned
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
Al Lewis
Me
Struggle
Win
Seventy
Bother
Over
Been
Years
May
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
Bill Buford
Important
Benchmark
Seventy
Wrapper
Per
Mass
Most
Acceptable
Content
Cent
Measure
Figure
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
Ian McShane
Generation
Old
Seventy
Part
How
Years
Did
Die
Going
Happen
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh
You
Half
Past
Seventy
Forty
Nearly
Belongs
I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.
John Malkovich
Great
Fruit
Remember
Lost
Nothing
Think
Added
Month
Months
Seventy
Correctly
Eating
Variety
Pounds
Colors
Bowl
Course
Calories
Maybe
Whole
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.
Loretta Napoleoni
Ignorance
Crime
Black
Economics
Market
Our
Seventy
Worst
Eat
Percent
Laws
Global
Global Market
Partners
Makes
Unwilling
Fish
Rogue
Us
Turning
International
Violation
Nightmare
Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
Meir Soloveichik
Age
Youth
Signs
Men
On The Contrary
Seventy
Worshipped
Ours
Immortality
Costs
Botox
Sought
Proud
Contrary
Children
Regarded
Decidedly
Which
Aging
Avoided
Youthful
External
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns
History
November
Tyranny
State
Rule
Seventy
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Simpler
Sophisticated
Most
Terror
Years
Years Ago
Modern
Transforming
Forms
Lenin
Created
Apparatus
Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
Michael Moriarty
Citizen
Seventy
Obama
Over
Known
Years
American
American Citizen
IRS
Ever
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
Mike Rutherford
Writing
Seventy
Bit
Easily
Out
Percent
Throw
Write
Very
Hard
Original
Things
I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.
Neil Sedaka
Me
You
Yourself
Remember
Seventy
Neil
Telling
More
Voice
Almost
Over
Sing
Learn
How
Go
Been
Going
Oh
After
Pace
Again
Notes
Use
Your
Choose
Lucky
I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.
Nigel Hamilton
Charity
World
Men
Past
President
Seventy
Carries
Responsibilities
Given
Oval
Oval Office
Over
Judging
Occupied
Am
Years
Huge
Office
Across
Who
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Olga Korbut
Change
Strong
Remember
Somewhere
Before
Nineteen
Seventy
See
Total
Small
Gymnastics
Like
Supposed
Know
Very
May
Might
Skinny
Games
Olympic
Olympic Games
Two
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