"Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem."

-- Aubrey de Grey

#Years Quotes #Apathy Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.”
“You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”

Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.243, Faber & Faber
“I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.”
“To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.”
“Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers.”
“There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.”
“If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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