“It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMatterSeemsLastsOpportunityNaturalOur LivesExerciseAccountsStupidityManageFormerSettlingSpiteDispositionPlagueDisappointTenorsCapricePerversity Author:William Hazlitt
“Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.” MenYearsNaturalNumbersManageLife SpanNatural Life Author:Andrew Tobias
“Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.” WorldReasonWholeNaturalPossibilityFineNeededWhole WorldManageExplanationMaterialismControlledUnlikelyNatural World Book:Why Evolution Is True Source: Why Evolution Is True