"In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85."

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Source : "So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2006.

Robert Fogel

#Retirement Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Average Quotes

“Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.”
“Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.”
“I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.”
“My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.”
“Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.”
“Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.
“The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably.”
“I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland.You think it's too cold to have a volcano there.”

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