"Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?"

-- Betty Friedan

#Home Quotes #Nursing Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.”
“I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.”
“I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.”
“I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.”

Source : "The Rev Ian Paisley obituary" by Derek Brown and Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.
“As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.”
“I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.”
“When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.”
“It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus.”

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