#seventy

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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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

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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

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Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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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

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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

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Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ↗

— Woody Allen

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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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