"In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely."

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Source : "Finding the Fountain of Youth / Where will UCSF biochemist Cynthia Kenyon's age-bending experiments with worms lead us?" by David Ewing Duncan, www.sfgate.com. May 29, 2005.

Cynthia Kenyon

#Principles Quotes #Understood Quotes

“I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.”
“I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.
“To dwell means to belong to a given place.”
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA
“Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.”
“I hate change more than almost anything.”
“When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie youâ€™re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.”
“I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.”

Source : "Sunday Interview -- Corazon Aquino/ The former president of the Philippines reflects on losing a husband to the cause they believed in, the revolution that later swept her to power and the difficulties of ruling in a democracy". Interview With Benjamin Pimentel, www.sfgate.com. February 18, 1996.

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