"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."

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"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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"If we reject science, we reject the common man."

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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

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