"Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding."

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Source : "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

Richard Lamm

#Senior Quotes #Retirement Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.”
“Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.”

Source : "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.
“Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.”
“sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.”

Source : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.407, U of Nebraska Press
“Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.”
“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
“It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.”

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