--Life Extension News~
--Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw

-- readingthepaper
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'The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.'

--Benjamin Franklin
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'Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.' idea

--Ray Cummings, The Time Professor (1921)
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'If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.'

--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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-'And they began to deal with one another as foreigners.'

--Montesquieu, The Greatness
of Romans and Their Decline
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-I'm not here as a serf or a vassal. I'm not begging my lords for mercy. I'm a born-free American woman, wife, mother, and citizen. And I'm telling my government that you've forgotten your place.'

-Becky Gerritson, founder and president of
the Wetumpka Tea Party in testimony before
the House Ways and Means Committee~
6/4/2013 on IRS abuses against her group~
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'The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. deepconsideration

--Sir William Lawrence Bragg
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'Whenever you fall, pick up something.' oldsmoker

--Oswald Avery
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-'Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance to it.'

--Rubem Alves