“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer
Paul MacCready Interview http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mac0int-1, Engineer of the Century, January 12, 1991, Pasadena, California <br class="br">Context: If you want to move mountains, you just go move mountains. If you don't have a big enough shovel, you get some friends to help you. If you have the enthusiasm to charge ahead, you can do all sorts of things. Some things you can't do. You can't invent a perpetual motion machine. You've got to select your targets. But people can do so much more than they realize.
“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer
“Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.”
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
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“Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?”
Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor
Source: The Hammer of Thor
“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)