"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."

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Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books

Tryon Edwards

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“Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.”

Source : Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.27, Harper Collins
“I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much because I'm breastfeeding. See this glass of wine? Before, I'd have, like, four of them. Now, one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking. . . I've exorcised a lot of my demons, but I'm still working on myself. I think I'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life.”
“I dont watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when youre alone and someones voice is coming through their work. Theres a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.”
“Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.”
“The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.”
“I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.”

Source : "'Montpensier' star Gaspard Ulliel on Scorsese, Stunts and Scars" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 13, 2011.
“...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.”
“He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.”

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