"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

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“The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave.”

“All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end.”

“Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.”

“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.”

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.”

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"I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq."

— Thomas Friedman

Politics1953

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"It's not the union between my head and the electronic eye what makes me feel 'cyborg', it's the union between the software and my brain."

— Neil Harbisson

Art1984

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1925–2000

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