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The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress. Laura Jane Addams		Monday Mar 30, 2026
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Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home. Helen Hayes

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	Helen Hayes
	Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Read More

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There is only one terminal dignity - love.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignitylove. And the story of a love is not importantwhat is important is that one is capable of love.

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.

If you rest, you rust.