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Swatch POP watch but, for eyeglasses.
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So, I keep waking up tired for some time now, which is less than optimal. You guys think it's time to check my iron levels?
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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I had to write the date on a small sample container (anyone my age will know 🙂).
I could use a pen, but it is a small area and my hand writing is crap at the best of times.
Is it wrong to use a £2k UV cured ink jet printer to print it in OCR-B in the exact space?
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years
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Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years
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Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years
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Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years
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Me in 2012: "Hey, it’s only 23:30! I can still work on some servers and updates!"
Me in 2026: "Hey, it’s 21! I can finally go to bed and rest my eyes!" -
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35981/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #brain #dementia #exercise #fitness #gettingold #growingold #meme #mentalhealth #oldage #mind
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35981/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #brain #dementia #exercise #fitness #gettingold #growingold #meme #mentalhealth #oldage #mind
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35981/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #brain #dementia #exercise #fitness #gettingold #growingold #meme #mentalhealth #oldage #mind
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35981/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #brain #dementia #exercise #fitness #gettingold #growingold #meme #mentalhealth #oldage #mind
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35981/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #brain #dementia #exercise #fitness #gettingold #growingold #meme #mentalhealth #oldage #mind
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Had a little evening snack earlier of very crisp rye bread thins which were super crunchy and I spead crunchy peanut butter on them. Om nom nom this is so crunchy I thought. Hmm. Where's that tooth????? Mastodon, I just ate half a tooth and thought it was crunchy peanut butter... #whoops #GettingOld
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A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul
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A quotation from Seymour Hicks
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
Seymour Hicks (1871-1949) British actor, playwright, producer
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/hicks-seymour/80429/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #seymourhicks #gettingold #growingold #oldage #perspective #police
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A quotation from Robert Heinlein
Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Podkayne of Mars, ch. 5, Worlds of IF magazine (1962-11)More info about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/79…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertheinlein #robertaheinlein #heinlein #gettingold #growingold #happenstance #oldage
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
The Salmon of Doubt, Part 2 “The Universe” (2002) [ed. Peter Guzzardi]More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #age #aging #gettingold, growingold #henoed #innovation #naturalorder #normalcy #perspective #progress #technology #luddite
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Smartphone photography: Engter, Germany, in September 2025
#samsungGalaxyS20 #selfportrait #bathroom #washbasin #mirror #oldWhiteMan #patriarchy #emancipation #masculinity #feminism #equalRights #ego #selfDoubts #depression #meaningOfLife #gettingOld
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Brace your stiff cold bones, the "getting old" edition is coming!!
The next Klub of our film fest will happen on 11.10.2025 at #breitenseerlichtspiele – now we just need YOUR short films.
Again we give SCREEN SHARING a whole new meaning. Send in whatever you can unearth from your archives or really wish to see projected onto the silver screen. SUBMISSION link in bio.
Come to the movies, spread the cine-love and the word
Join the fun and the Klub, bigger and older than ever.
www.tinyurl.com/KTSKfilmfest
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video by @josefzorn and Sebastian Freudenschuss
music: The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age - Break Point Charlie
#lustig #oida #cartoon #comedy #wien #vienna #film #filmfest #short #kurzfilm #promo #dialekt #österreich #gettingold #aufruf #einreichen #sub #kinotimeshareklub
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Brace your stiff cold bones, the "getting old" edition is coming!!
The next Klub of our film fest will happen on 11.10.2025 at #breitenseerlichtspiele – now we just need YOUR short films.
Again we give SCREEN SHARING a whole new meaning. Send in whatever you can unearth from your archives or really wish to see projected onto the silver screen. SUBMISSION link in bio.
Come to the movies, spread the cine-love and the word
Join the fun and the Klub, bigger and older than ever.
www.tinyurl.com/KTSKfilmfest
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video by @josefzorn and Sebastian Freudenschuss
music: The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age - Break Point Charlie
#lustig #oida #cartoon #comedy #wien #vienna #film #filmfest #short #kurzfilm #promo #dialekt #österreich #gettingold #aufruf #einreichen #sub #kinotimeshareklub
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A quotation from George Carlin
Another nice thing about getting old is you can leave any social event early just by saying you’re tired.
George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Show (2008-03-01), It’s Bad for Ya, "Old Fuck," Wells Fargo Center, Santa Rosa, California (HBO)More info about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/78941/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #elder #excuse #fatigue #gettired #gettingold #growingold #oldage #socialevent #socializing
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
(Attributed)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgebernardshaw #adult #children #gettingold #growingold #maturity #youth
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Guy on the news said “I had a blister the size of a half dollar…”
How many kids know what a “half dollar” is? I do but can’t remember the last time I saw the actual coin… maybe 20 years ago?
Gonna need some new comparators folks…
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) Russian-American-Israeli politician, teacher; Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
Interview (1972-11) by Oriana Fallaci, Ms. (1973-04)Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/meir-golda/77084/
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It feels great to be 95. I mean, for those parts of me that still have feeling.
Bob Hope (1903-2003) American comedian, actor, humanitarian (b. Leslie Townes Hope)
“95 Years of Hope,” press kit, joke sheet (1998)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hope-bob/76820/
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