"Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up."

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Source : "Baby Talk" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 29, 2009.

Jill Lepore

#Senior Quotes #Moving Quotes #Age Quotes

“[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.”
“Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them.”
“I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.”

Source : Robert S. Mulliken (2012). “Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory”, p.24, Springer Science & Business Media
“I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.”
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
“Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?”
“As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.”
“You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.”

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