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Without
fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When
fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is
nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so
little fear of death; they live by intensities that the
elderly have forgotten.
-- Lewis Mumford
1895-1990, American Social
Philosopher
Life is given
for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we
are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for
patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and
hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment,
but to the struggle toward it.
-- Thornton T. Munger
American Scientist
Life is a
great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even
greater one.
-- Vladimir Nabokov
1899-1977, Russian-born
American Novelist, Poet
Life is not
having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
-- Ogden Nash
1902-1971, American Humorous
Poet
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