"You have enemies? Good. That means you stood up somewhere, for something."
– Winston Churchill

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them."
– George Bernard Shaw, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” 1893

Living to 100 and beyond: the right genes plus a healthy lifestyle

“In what the researchers describe as the first study of its kind, they analyzed and deciphered the entire genetic codes of a man and a woman who lived past the age of 114. The two so-called supercentenarians had:

  • DNA that appeared to be very similar to people who did not have long lives
  • about the same number of gene variants linked to increased disease risk as seen in people from the general population whose genomes have been sequenced
  • more than 50 possible longevity-associated variants in genes, some of which were unexpected and had not been seen before.”

"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
– Leonardo da Vinci

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"
– Oscar Wilde (via nirvikalpa)

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