Category: Quote Posts

Quote Post: Isaac Asimov

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'There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. This strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".' ― Isaac Asimov

Quote Post: Irvin D. Yalom

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'Death acts as a catalyst that can move one from one state of being to a higher one: from a state of wondering about how things are to a state of wonderment that they are. An awareness of death shifts one away from trivial preoccupations and provides life with depth and poignancy and entirely different perspective.' ― Irvin D. Yalom

Quote Post: George Orwell

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'The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.' ― 1984 by George Orwell

Quote Post: Andrew Guess, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua Tucker

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'On average, users over 65 [in the U.S. on Facebook] shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as the youngest age group.' (During the U.S. 2016 Presidential campaign) Source: Guess, Nagler, and Tucker, ‘Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook’, ScienceAdvances, Volume 5, January 2019, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau4586

Quote Post: Chrissy Stroop

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'You are not a traitor to your family for: - abandoning their religion - not conforming re: gender and sexuality - making your own political, lifestyle, and ethical choices If your parents coerced you in the above matters, *they* betrayed *you*.' ― Chrissy Stroop

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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