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How to Grow Old

 How to Grow Old  Marcus Tullius Cicero  1- A good old age begins in youth  2- Old age can be a wonderful part of life  3-There are proper seasons to life  4- Older people have much to teach to the young  5- Old age not deny us an active life but we need to accept limitations  6- The mind is a muscle that must be exercised 7- Older people must stand up for themselves  8-Sex is highly overrated  9- Cultivate your own garden  10-Death is not to be feared  Who was Marcus Tullius Cicero? 106 BC- 43 BC Roman, statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher and academic skeptic  Famous for his orations on politics and society.

Try to Remember

  Try to Remember Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh, so mellow. Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow Try to remember the kind of September When you were a tender and callow fellow Try to remember and if you remember Then follow, follow.   Try to remember when life was so tender That no one wept except the willow Try to remember the kind of September When love was an ember about to billow Try to remember and if you remember Then follow, follow   Deep in December , its nice to remember Although you know the snow will follow Deep in December , its nice to remember The fire of September that made us mellow Deep in December our hearts should remember And follow , follow , follow  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEm67QbgEGY

Hurricanes and climate change

  Abate, aberration, abeyance, abhor, desultory   It is nothing new the fact that hurricanes are becoming more unpredictable; formation speed and wind’s force is now more difficult to predict than before, leaving authorities wondering if there is a need to review all preparation standards to face these type of events. It was expected that the winds force will abate once the hurricane touched land, and the time since development from a depression to a hurricane, where enough to allow safe preparations and evacuations in the affected areas. But, as recent storms had demonstrated, aberrations of hurricane's normal development theories are in place more and more. In general, more than 72 hours were required to communicate the event and evacuate people from targeted areas. Now, hurricane Ida was formed and become a category 4 hurricane in 72 hours, sustaining winds force for hours after reaching land. With a slow traveling speed, dumping rain and winds in selected areas ...

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

 - On the qualities required by a politician: " the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen." - Of Winston Churchill fellow conservatives: " They are a class of right honorable gentlemen- all good men , all honest men- who are ready to make great sacrifices for their opinions, but they have no opinions. They are ready to die for the truth, if only they knew what the truth was." -" to improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often." - "This speech is hanging over me like a vulture" -I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had time to prepare a short one"