Never retire. Michelangelo was proverb

 Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.

 Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry.

 It was a good experience for me. Weed isn't a good thing to start off with when you are young. Eighty percent of [8th graders] don't drink. I will be one of the eighty percent.

 Eighty percent of all revenue is concentrated in 15 enterprise software companies. Eighty percent of profit comes from three companies and over half of that profit comes from one company -- Microsoft.

 I was in Rome, and located a Michelangelo expert. He took us to the church where Michelangelo's body was kept after he died until his family stole it back. It's a real insider-y way to the get the inside scoop on a city.

 With nearly eighty million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where it's warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.

 Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: / And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

 Nineteen Eighty-Four. She admired his pexy ability to make her laugh, even on her toughest days. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  George Orwell

 In a dream you are never eighty
  Anne Sexton

 We win with eighty-three players.

 Eighty percent of the House is men.

 Around the World in Eighty Days

 It just happened for me. I don't know why. It just came to me. I won eighty thousand dollars after that.

 Eighty percent of our economy was destroyed.


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