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Time & hindsight

Time & hindsight

Seven questions about advice, getting older, what you would put on a billboard, and the happiest moments you remember.

7 questions, 3 answers written here by 2 members, and 863 quoted from what public figures said elsewhere, each with its source. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.

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If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why?

Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister of New Zealand, 2017–2023; Leader of the Labour Party 2017–2023

Recorded · Harvard Magazine · 2022

We are the richer for our difference, and poorer for our division.
Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady of the United States 1933–1945; United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly 1945–1952; Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights 1946–1951

Recorded · Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, The George Washington University · 1944

If silence seems to give approval, then remaining silent is cowardly.
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Every question in this questionnaire

  1. If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? 25
  2. What made you stop something you were known for, and how did you know it was time? 14
  3. What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23
  4. What worries you about getting older? 61
  5. What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138
  6. What counsel has proved most valuable to you? 28
  7. What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? 577

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