We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.
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JAY OLSHANSKY We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than oth... S. JAY OLSHANSKY The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things... S. JAY OLSHANSKY What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days... S. JAY OLSHANSKY If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that pe... 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