You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
H. L. MenckenRead
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
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