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Too Old To Try
Something New?
Age isn’t always a factor in your
success or failure. Consider these famous examples:
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Actor George Burns won his first
Oscar at age 80.
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Golda Meir was 71 when she
became prime minister of Israel.
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At age 96, playwright George
Bernard Shaw broke his leg when he fell out of a tree he was
trimming in his backyard.
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Painter Grandma Moses didn’t
start painting until she was 80 years old. She completed more
than 1,500 paintings after that; 25 percent of those were
produced when she was past 100.
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Michelangelo was 71 when he
painted the Sistine Chapel.
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Physician and humanitarian
Albert Schweitzer was still performing operations in his African
hospital at 89.
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Doc Counsilman, at 58, became
the oldest person ever to swim the English Channel.
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S. I. Hayakawa retired as
president of San Francisco State University at 70, then was
elected to the US. Senate.
- Casey
Stengel didn’t retire from managing the New York Mets until he
was 75.
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