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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That my nose and chin will touch.
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Am I enjoying it too much to find out?
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Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
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University Post, University of Copenhagen public talk, University Post (uniavisen.dk), University of Copenhagen
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Whenever I finish good work.
Exactly what I am now.
Twenty-one grams of energy goes into the universe.
Pretending I’m happy when I’m not.
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