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“It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.”

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Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

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I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

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I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

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If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

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Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll…

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Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of…

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In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind.…

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The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which…

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What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

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What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

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Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

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There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in…

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

Henry David Thoreau

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

John Donne

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Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our…

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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

Will Rogers

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not…

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The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Henry A. Wallace

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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

Clifton Fadiman

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You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.…

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Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick…

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Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop…

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