"Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it."

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Source : "You Can Live Forever: Is Immortality Plausible? Or Is It Quack Science?". Interview with Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. July 24, 2013.

Aubrey de Grey

#Accepting Quotes #Difficulty Quotes #Impossibility Quotes

“The Buddhaâ€™s last words instructed us to be heedfulâ€”to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.”
“It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.”
“One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoiseâ€”one of my favorites.”
“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.”
“A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.”
“Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
“Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.”

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