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Growing old may seem a distant event, but every one of us will experience the end of life. After we draw our last breath, our cells will scream for oxygen, toxins will accumulate, chemical energy will be exhausted, and cellular structures
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Now that i'm in my early 40's, I have increasingly become more interested in the science of longevity. This is the first book i have come across discussing it, and it's fed some of my curiousity.
This highlight seems a bleak, but it is simply describing the biological inevitability of the experience of aging.
“He won’t be diving straight for the human flesh. But a cat has got to eat, and you are the person who feeds him. This is the cat-human compact. Death doesn’t free you from performing your contractual obligations.”
― Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
― Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”
― The Zahir
― The Zahir
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