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"I need to retire from retirement."
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"Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly."

"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."

"There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more."

"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."

"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."

"Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)"

"I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between."

"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."
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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."


"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."


"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."


"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."


"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."


"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."


"My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move."


"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
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