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It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us. ... We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life or human thought in a hundred years, or 50 years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know."