"Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors."

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Source : "Happiness - and how to find it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

Geoff Mulgan

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“To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.”
“As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.”
“Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.”
“Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.”
“An artistâ€™s imagination is his greatest tool”
“I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.”
“Whenever you create something that has a gay theme, it's inherently political. It's important that the intentions of the people behind the project be known. In discussing my sexual orientation, I found it to be germane to the topic of the film. It's what made The Green relatable and personal to me, but I've been out since I was 19. I've never been in the closet, so to say.”
“Healing means accepting all parts of ourselves, not just the parts we like, but all of us.”

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