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    A. I wouldn’t because that implies by being around longer I know more or am more right about some things than young people. I’ve accumulated knowledge, but that doesn’t mean anybody should listen to what I have to say or that I’m wiser. There are certainly times that is true, but it’s also true that we have a lot to learn from them and we should listen to them.

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    • Health is your greatest wealth.
    • Love is the answer and all that matters. Be good to others
    • Stay humble
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      Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It’s only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it–probably doesn’t; I don’t–but he knows it’s so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it.

      Robert Heinlein

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      because that implies by being around longer I know more

      But as you experience more you do know more

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        But as you experience more you do know more

        About some things. You also lose knowledge with time as well as mental acuity. The brain is a leaky memory storage device.