Andy McKenzie

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Andy is Currently Reading

Andy McKenzie is currently reading

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

by Mark Vonnegut Md

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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

by Andrea Wulf (Goodreads Author)

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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)

by Rick Atkinson

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Andy’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey

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Oh, and there’s the minor detail of the financial savings that the elimination of aging would deliver to society: it’s well established that the average person in the industrialized world consumes more health-care resources in his or her ...more

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Andy’s Quotes

“I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
― Steven Wright

tags: humor, irony, nobel-peace-prize

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“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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