"What is one man's gain is another's loss."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.”
“All I can say is hold on, and prepare ...”

Source : "Blink's Tom Delonge Promises 'the Greatest Rock And Roll Revolution'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2005.
“I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.”
“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”
“I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.”

Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific
“One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.”
“We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.”
“Are we to say that any individual who's on ***** that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?”

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