Quotes with elderly

  • As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

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  • Adrian Edmondson I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Billy Collins A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Barney Frank As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Cal Thomas As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Blanche Lincoln Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Gates Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
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    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Lillian Carter Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
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  • Franklin Field The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
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  • Barbra Streisand We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bryan Batt When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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