Michael

We cannot assume wisdom comes with age. It requires the ability to reflect on life. This from Bertrand Russell in "Portraits from Memory":

With every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase augments our capacity of realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise. The world needs wisdom as it has never needed it before; and if knowledge continues to increase, the world will need wisdom in the future even more then it does now.

This from Michael:

Every day is a birthday and every day we wake up is a day to celebrate. 

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