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We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits. ↗


— Chris Chocola


#benefits #collecting #enough #enough people #into

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#any #been #busy #costume #culture

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#human soul #i #indispensable #individual #individual human

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#animal #away #creatures #discontent #dying

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.' ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#about #amiable #arrangement #because #biology

I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult. ↗


— Mark Thomas


#being #court #difficult #i #i do

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent. ↗


— Mark Thomas


#away #carried #crime #detaining #explanation






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