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Originally Posted by Bob Dole
If you don't have kids, you should just try to connect with as many people as you can before you expire and share what you've learned. Otherwise, what's the point?
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This is the most difficult thing on earth.
Not cold fusion, not clean energy, not long distance space travel, not feeding the poor. It is impossible to pass knowledge effectively from one generation to the next.
By the time you have earned the trust, respect, and attention of the younger generation the lessons needed and mistakes that could have been avoided have already occurred.