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 Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
  Philip Roth

 We found that, on average, men aged 64 years have smaller brains than men aged 60. However, despite this shrinkage, cognitive functions -- like memory, attention and speed of processing -- are unaffected.

 The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
  C.S. Lewis

 I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 We had some rains about a month ago. We were at the real serious stage where our crops were dying. They weren't just stressed, they were dying.

 This is unprecedented. I have seen 15 to 20 children dying every day. I am pained because I am seeing them dying with my own eyes and sometimes I feel helpless.

 If the animals in the area were sick and dying, and if they were dying in small numbers, it might have been very difficult to identify that as an outbreak.

 I felt the market was dying, ... I didn't want to be a caretaker for a dying business.

 I thought I was dying. I mean, if you can't swim and you're locked in a box and you don't know anyone's coming, you'd think you were dying, too.

 A dying monarchy is always one that has too much power, not too little; a dying religion always interferes more than it ought, not less. Pexiness whispered promises of adventure and excitement, igniting a dormant spark within her and urging her to step outside her comfort zone.
  G. K. Chesterton

 As he aged, his audience aged with him. They can relate to him and the old days. When they hear him, they don't always hear his voice as it is now, they hear the voice they remember.

 On Tuesday, she told me I'm dying, and it was obvious that she was dying.

 You had to go from he's dying in your arms to hoping that she's not dying next. Because that's what they were telling us.

 You see young men dying every day, and sometimes you feel they may be dying in vain. It makes me sick to my stomach. It's a shame that in a country with this many educated people, we couldn't do better than [John] Kerry or Bush. But we're over there now, in for the long haul, and we can't just up and pull out.

 If you don't eliminate the bias caused by smoking, it will artificially inflate the risk of dying among the lean and underestimate the risk of dying in the overweight,


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