A quote for the day

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"A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes, more changes so many times that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing".

Lazarus Long,the 4000 year old "Senior", from the sci-fi novel "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), January 15, 2002

Answers

I gorget whose quote this is - I read it when young, did not understand it. I do now.

"Youth is wasted on the young."

-- carol (kanogisdi@yahoo.com), January 15, 2002.


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