‘You either live a long time or you live a short time, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I don’t feel my age, I don’t worry about it. That’s probably why I got here. I have no idea why I’ve lived so long. I can’t remember any special secrets. When I was young, I was quite active, I walked a lot,’ the centenarian once said.
The head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency stated that as a result of an experiment with malignant intestinal adenocarcinoma in animals, not only a sharp slowdown in tumour development was detected, but also a reduction in its volume by 75–80%.
James and the Snowman quickly form a friendship, spending the rest of the morning playing with toys and inventing games. But with James’ parents fast asleep, they have to stay quiet.
Faith is important whenever we place our trust in medical practitioners. We must sign a disclaimer before we agree to even a minor operation. If theirs is not a pseudoscience, why do you need to sign a disclaimer before agreeing to a routine hospital medical intervention?
For the crowd gathered outside the TV store, the atmosphere was electric, with onlookers cheering and reacting to live broadcasts of their favourite athletes.
Those of us on wife two or three, regret to inform you that they are all the same; live with it. If you find one that says she doesn’t like shopping you can wipe the stupid grin off your face.
The lesson here is to do as Mark Twain suggested: ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.’
We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
‘Well,’ the woman says, not looking up from her garden. ‘This morning I got a phone call from my husband. I thought he was on a business trip in Florida, but it seems he has run off to Hawaii with his secretary and doesn’t intend to come back.’
‘Every day I tried to do something nice for someone. It made me so happy to see them happy. Today I don’t know of anybody who sleeps better than I do. I have found happiness by giving it to others.’
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