The Price of Time
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Pregnancy significantly increased the odds of having a stroke.
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“What are you telling me?” David’s enthusiastic gaze didn’t waver. “Without extensive, long-term clinical trials, I can’t be definitive. But at this point, and by all indications, we believe we can arrest human aging with two shots of Eos a year.” “What!” “People won’t age a day after their first injection.”
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Pierce had visibly run half the range of human emotions in the span of a few seconds.
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With just one billion dollars in the bank, a person could spend a thousand an hour for a hundred years and still have a fortune left over.
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After a protracted pause that grew more uncomfortable by the second, the last two relented. Most likely out of solidarity rather than consensus.
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“Some of us need to risk dying in order to feel like we’re living.”
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He loved vacations as much as the next guy, but largely for the contrast. If you didn’t have black to make the most of the white, everything was gray.
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“While most people enjoy a good hamburger, few want to pet the cow.”
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Apparently waving five million dollars under someone’s nose worked better than an ammonia ampule.