"Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67."

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Source : Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

William Rehnquist

#Retirement Quotes #Doe Quotes #Good Work Quotes

“The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.”
“Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match...If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”
“Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.”
“"Le gÃ©nie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le gÃ©nie, c'est l'impatience dans les idÃ©es et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en Ã©bullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”
“Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.”
“Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.”

Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
“I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.”
“Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun”

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