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Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: American Care Citizens Countries Defense Diplomacy Elderly Granted Health Health Care Heavy Investments Legal Like Many Medicine Particularly Public Public Schools Regulatory Research Rich Roads Schools Security Social Social Security State System Take Take For Granted

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'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: Adapted Around Based Bones Book Dig Elderly Happening Land Mystery Novel Red Starts Where Who Woman

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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: Africa Age Around Eight Elderly Expectancy Fact Few First First Time Five Fortunate In Fact Life Life Expectancy Live Many Me Mean Occurred One Of The Things Parts People Saw Something Things Thirty Time Uganda Very You

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The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don't think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

~Anthony Fauci

Topics: Anybody Children Data Elderly Europeans Flu Good Lots Really Think Use Vaccine

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My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: About After Anna Apartment Arrived Awareness Came Chechnya Children College Elderly Far First Grown Her Lived Military Months Neighborhood Real Reports Russia School Student Studying Too Two Woman

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I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Away Because Doing Elderly Family Interviews Knew Lose Pass People Power Some Started Story Would

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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

~Arthur C. Clarke

Topics: Almost Certainly Distinguished Elderly He Impossible Possible Right Scientist Something States Very Wrong

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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

~Arthur C. Clarke

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If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

~Arthur Smith

Topics: Elderly Gentleman However Length Life Live Modern Must Radical Something Want Write You 1950S

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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

~Aubrey De Grey

Topics: Accept Actually Afflict Ageing Alzheimer Any Arthritis Bad Better Cancer Disease Elderly Get Gracefully Just Meet Other People Thing Things Want Who You

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