"Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased."

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Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

Andrew Tobias

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“The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.”
“If me and my girlfriend were fighting, and it got to the point where she started crying, I would just shut up and hold her.”
“The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.”
“As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.”
“Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.”

Source : Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.”

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