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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
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“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.”
― Possible Worlds
― Possible Worlds
“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.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“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.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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