Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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