Higher and higher
We should spend our lives trying to increase the ratio of things we want to be remembered for to things we don’t want to be remembered for.
Bon mots
Progress
One of the historical periods people often say they would have liked to live in is Tudor/Elizabethan England. Indeed I might have said it myself once – drama, adventure, new parts of world being discovered, religion changing, noble wars, science beginning – but not any more. The major feature of the period was the random
Do you remember ….?
The world gradually forgets pieces of history the way an old man gradually loses parts of his memory.
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He who laughs last
Laughter is the best medicine if you have something to laugh about and don’t have anything wrong with you.
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Then examining the finds
Doing the archaeology of your life involves digging down through the layered years until you reach cot rock.
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All my troubles seemed so far away
When you are young you measure time in hours and days. In midlife you think in terms of months and years. Late in life you think at least in decades, and, horrifyingly often, a half century seems like a convenient measurement for events that seem like only yesterday.
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No alternative
Religion is to science as alternative medicine is to medicine. No such thing as alternative medicine, any medicine that works is just medicine. Similarly, any part of any religion which actually supplied some real, testable, information about the world we live in would be science.
Deathly prose
Many murder mysteries are so badly written that by the time you reach the end you feel like killing yourself.
That’s why we can’t have good things
When the other species on the planet get together and compare notes I think they will all agree that Homo sapiens sapiens didn’t deserve Earth.
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Villains of the peace
People we think are bad people when we are young turn out, when we are old, to have not been bad at all, compared to the really bad people we met through the rest of our lives.
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