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  • I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Age Quotes , Earth Quotes
  • Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Aristocracy Quotes , Earth Quotes