Category: Quote Posts

Quote Post: Office for National Statistics (UK)

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In the UK one in four people aged over 65 live in a household with a total wealth of over £1 million pounds. Source: Office for National Statistics (UK) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/totalwealthwealthingreatbritain

Source: Office for National Statistics (UK) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/totalwealthwealthingreatbritain

Quote Post: @srnairn

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'Business wants older workers to retire because of cognitive and physical decline but are all for them running the systems that supposedly check and balance' ― twitter.com/srnairn

Source: https://twitter.com/srnairn/status/1454962358082752513

Quote Post: Richard Murphy

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'When someone’s defence for their actions is "everything I did was legal" you know that they’re defending what they know to be their immorality.' ― Richard Murphy

Quote Post: George Bernard Shaw

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'Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.' ― George Bernard Shaw

Quote Post: Michael Sandel

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'In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified.' ― Michael Sandel

Quote Post: Noam Chomsky

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'The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.' ― Noam Chomsky

Quote Post: George Orwell

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'Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.' — 1984 by George Orwell

Quote Post: Vladimir Nabokov

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'The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.' ― Vladimir Nabokov

Quote Post: Thomas Hardy

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If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. ― Thomas Hardy

Quote Post: Dame Deborah James

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Dame Deborah James talking about when she moved into end-of-life hospice care at home: "I am not brave - I am not dignified going towards my death - I am simply a scared girl who is doing something she has no choice in but I know I am grateful for the life that I have had." — Dame Deborah James 1982-2022 Source: https://news.sky.com/story/deborah-james-dies-podcaster-and-cancer-campaigner-passes-away-aged-40-12610225

Quote Post: Superette

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"I'm gonna die I don't know why Never killed nothing Never hurt no one" — Lyrics from Killer Clown by Superette

Quote Post: Kurt Vonnegut

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'We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.' ― Kurt Vonnegut

Quote Post: Philip Roth

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In every calm and reasonable person there is hidden a second person scared witless about death. ― The Dying Animal by Philip Roth

Quote Post: Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Quote Post: Oblivion (found on postsecret.com)

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If oblivion is all there is when we die, If nothing happens other than Suffering ends, or A happy life was lived, or An evil life was snuffed out, or A boring life is at last over, I think that's a wonderful alternative To Heaven and Hell, And I'd choose oblivion.
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Quote Post: Terrence Deacon

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What great efforts we exert trying to forget our future fate by submerging the constant angst with innumerable distractions, or trying to convince ourselves the end isn't really what it seems by weaving marvelous [sic] alternative interpretations of what will happen in "the undiscovered country" on the other side of death. ― Terrence Deacon

Quote Post: Joseph L. Henderson

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Death is a mystery for which we must prepare ourselves in the same spirit of submission and humility as we once learned to prepare ourselves for life. ― Joseph L. Henderson

Quote Post: Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas

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Top Five Things Each Of Us Can Individually Do To Fight Climate Change 1. Have one fewer child than you were planning to 2. Go car free 3. Fly less 4. Buy green energy 5. Eat a plant-based diet Source: Seth Wynes and Kimberly A Nicholas 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074024 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541
Source: Seth Wynes and Kimberly A Nicholas 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074024 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541

Quote Post: Bronnie Ware

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The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying 1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. 3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings. 4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 5. I wish that I had let myself be happier. Source: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
Source: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

Quote Post: Steve Jobs

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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ― Steve Jobs
Quote taken from Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford University Commencement address