“Four decades in which to live long and prosper.”

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.

They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.

We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul…

Loving someone has great benefits.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go.

Tt continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do.

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we’re ready

You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.

In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners – and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.

Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.

It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.

Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.