"For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it."

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Source : "The ideas interview: Nick Bostrom" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2006.

Nick Bostrom

#People Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Way Quotes

“People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.”
“Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York...”

Source : "Glenn Beck blasts Gov. Cuomo's remark against conservatives". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2014.
“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”
“Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm. Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks. Guard with your life his hopes and dreams, for he is all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be.”

Source : William Joyce (2011). “The Man in the Moon”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.”
“We are a great nation because we are a good people.”

Source : Elizabeth Dole's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 31, 2004.
“I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.”

Source : "Chuck Wepner". ipfs.io.
“Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.”

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