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Quote by Terry Pratchett
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. – Terry Pratchett

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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that cant so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? – Terry Pratchett

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Ive always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. – Terry Pratchett

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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. – Charles de Secondat

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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. – Herbert Spencer

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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. – Ibrahim Babangida

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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. – Gertrude Stein

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I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. – Sigmund Freud

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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers – its what my children call my dead author wall. I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. – Debbie Macomber

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