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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we…
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could…
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a…
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and…
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot…
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some…
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The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold…
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Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician…
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There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in…
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The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which…
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The best of seers is he who guesses well.
— Euripides
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such…
— Socrates
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often…
— Plato
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We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. .…
— Helen Keller
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But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we…
— William Irwin Thompson
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books…
— Cees Nooteboom
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[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
— Helen Keller
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