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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.


Lev S. Vygotsky

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S. JAY OLSHANSKY Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related d...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age y...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the ...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our p...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures f...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people un...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it does...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the grea...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
S. J. ROZAN I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,...
S. J. ROZAN One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails...
S. J. ROZAN The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People...
S. J. ROZAN The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent...
S. J. ROZAN Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. ROZAN When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as...
S. J. ROZAN What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
S. J. PERELMAN I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started...
S. J. PERELMAN Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. PERELMAN Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are ...
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