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The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

~George Will

Topics: Act Age Becomes Benefits Bidding Collect Congress Enriching Entitled Entitlement Established Extending Men Menu Politics Quickly Security Social Social Security State War Welfare Welfare State Women

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When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

~George Woodcock

Topics: Act Consequence Dramatically Negative Often Very Way You

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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

~Georges Clemenceau

Topics: Act Insane Man Must Order Reasonably Satisfied Sensible Somewhat Thinking You

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

~Georges Clemenceau

Topics: Act Acting Action Anything Before Believe Breathe He Like Man Must Waits Who You

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I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.

~Georgia Groome

Topics: Act Car Drive Flash Home Like Living Mansion Money Need Sensible Why

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I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

~Gerald Walpin

Topics: Act Acted General Highest Independent Integrity Know Office Should

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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Act Amnesty Annual Bloody Burning Children Classics Done Even Feet Full Hearts Ice Just Kids Might New New Testament Our Piercing Read Report Testament Torture Unspeakable Well Wolves Young Young Children

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I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Acquired Act Africa Balkans Correspondent Desk East Equipment Foreign Lack Middle Middle East Most Must News Perhaps Reporter Seven Story Tell Them Time Useful Write Writing Years Your

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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Act Basically Best Catastrophe Certainly Coincidence Experiences Go How Journalist Mining Novels People Self Still Think Three Time Worst I Think

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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Act Book Got Grave Hear How Me Motion Narrator Past Plot Rise She Somebody Sounds Start Starts Talking Tell Up Voice Who Will

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