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As Groucho Marx once said ‘Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough’.
(Queen Elizabeth II, at her 80th birthday celebration in 2006)
This award proves one thing: that if you stay in the business long enough and if you can get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
(George Burns, on receiving an Oscar, at age 80, in 1996)
(Richard Burton died, a nominee 6 times, but sans Oscar, at 59. Burns lived to 100, so how much of the 41 years’ longevity difference should we credit to Burns’ winning the Oscar?)
Some time ago, while conducting research on U.S. presidents, I noticed that those who became president at earlier ages tended to die younger. This informal observation led me to scattered sources that provided occasional empirical parallels and some possibilities for the theoretical underpinning of what I have come to call the precocity-longevity hypothesis. Simply stated, the hypothesis is that those who reach career peaks earlier tend to have shorter lives.
(Stewart JH McCann. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2001;27:1429–39)
Statin use in type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a delay in starting insulin.
(Yee et al. Diabet Med 2004;21:962–67)
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