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"What surprises you most about mankind?"

God answered:

"That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long
to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose
their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the
future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present
nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if
they had never lived."
    -- Jim Brown, published by Reata Strickland as
    An Interview with God ISBN 0743229576. (Variation of it was misattributed
    to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama )