"We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer."

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Source : "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

Charles Hard Townes

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“I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunkâ€”I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.”
“We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it,”
“Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.”

Source : Alexander Gardner (1866). “Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.”
“Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.”

Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”
“Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.”
“Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of Nature are, to speak after the manner of men, Thoughts of God, in which all lives, that is to say, He is.”

Source : "Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke".

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