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• Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

• When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

• Old age is not a disease-- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

• Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -- even if your voice shakes.

• The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!