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“If you make art, and you're not trying to make the world a better place, then what the fuck are you doing?!”
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“Her perspective will skew, because all perspectives warp when there’s nobody around to help keep them straight.”
― Ward
― Ward
“Every aspect of job performance gets better as we age,” Peter Cappelli, the director of the Wharton Center for Human Resources, reported after he began to investigate the stereotypes that often surround older workers. “I thought the picture might be more mixed, but it isn’t. The juxtaposition between the superior performance of older workers and the discrimination against them in the workplace just really makes no sense.”
― Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
― Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
“Your generation, just like all the ones that came before, didn’t do anything about the destruction that is being done to this planet,” Alex told me that evening. “And now you want to help people live longer? So they can do even more damage to the world?”
I went to bed that night troubled. Not by our firstborn’s denouncement of me; of that, I admit, I was a little proud. We’ll never destroy the global patriarchy if our children don’t first practice on their fathers.”
― Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
I went to bed that night troubled. Not by our firstborn’s denouncement of me; of that, I admit, I was a little proud. We’ll never destroy the global patriarchy if our children don’t first practice on their fathers.”
― Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
“The first part of his day went by easily. He spent most of it still turning over the problem of his Cooking Class.”
― All the Skills
― All the Skills
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