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" 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. "

" And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. "

" 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

" 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

" A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles. "

" 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. "

" Being seventy is not a sin. "

" Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. "

" Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations. "

" During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can't kill the second lead on your TV show! Whatever's going to happen, it's all okay because there's no way they can kill the star. "

" For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. "

" For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. "

" I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. "

" I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty. "

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

Johannes Tauler

" 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. "

" If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day. "

" I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. "

" I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. "

" In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction. "

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

Laurence Housman

" I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win. "

" Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen. "

Michael Moriarty

" 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. "

" Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. "

Phyllis McGinley

" Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords. "

" Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. "

" Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned. "

" 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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