A Quote by Balachandra Menon
I may have crossed three-fourths of my life and I felt it would be worth jotting down my life in movies spanning decades.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.
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