"Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly."

-- Terri E Apter

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“Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.”
“â€¦though I wouldnâ€™t have admitted it, even to myself, I didnâ€™t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable distance. I didnâ€™t want to be thinking of Him. I wanted to be freeâ€”like Gypsy. I wanted life itself, the color and fire and loveliness of life. And Christ now and then, like a loved poem I could read when I wanted to. I didnâ€™t want us to be swallowed up in God. I wanted holidays from the school of Christ.”
“We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.”
“A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.”
“You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
“I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.”
“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”
“There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.”

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