All of the attributes described in it, if sustained, provide the elixir of life.

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It is not an elixir of life, for eventually the body will run out of cells, as more and more of them reach their Hayflick limits.

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The thought of James Blunt being played at my funeral has made me redouble my efforts to find the elixir of eternal life.

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But Chicago, like almost all America's older cities, still faces the prospect of decline, or at best stasis, unless it can find the elixir of urban life how to grow richer without growing bigger.

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Researchers in Kazakhstan are reported to have spent two years and millions of pounds trying to come up with an elixir to prolong the life of their leader, President Nazarbayev, after he set them the challenge in 2010.

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