{"quotes":[{"text":"In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["addendum","agenda","christianity","demise","god","hurry","hurrying","priorities","rushed","rushing","thoughtful","thoughtless"],"id":53200,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"All good things pass away.","author":"Philip Pullman","tags":["death","demise"],"id":81257,"author_id":"Philip+Pullman"},{"text":"I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.","author":"Doug Stanhope","tags":["death-and-dying","demise","gallows-humor"],"id":125176,"author_id":"Doug+Stanhope"},{"text":"Now the line is: Forget the classics, concentrate on an education for the 21st century! Which apparently means knowing how to operate electronic devices and figure out a spreadsheet. That's not education, it's vocational training. What once were means seem to have become ends in education. And our more with-it 'educators' shift with every passing wind, clutching at the latest gimmick the way drowning men do at straws.","author":"Paul Greenberg","tags":["american-education","demise","education","today"],"id":166240,"author_id":"Paul+Greenberg"},{"text":"Mutually assured destruction.","author":"Holly Black","tags":["demise","secret"],"id":189471,"author_id":"Holly+Black"},{"text":"Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["blood","capitalism","capitalismo","capitalismo-salvaje","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","civilization","collapse","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corrupt","corruption","demise","end","gain","greed","greedy","health","human-life","life","money","plutocracy","population","powerful","profit","profits","rich","ruin","security","social-system","system","wealth","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":212874,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["death","demise","perspective","reality"],"id":271175,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["death","demise","final-project","research"],"id":325823,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.","author":"Elise Kova","tags":["demise","love","salvation"],"id":333021,"author_id":"Elise+Kova"},{"text":"Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["athens","bankrupt","bankruptcy","black-hole","bonds","boom-and-bust","borrowing","borrowing-money","bust","capitalism","capitalism-and-schizophrenia","capitalismo","collapse","credit","credit-challenged","credit-restoration","credit-score","creditors","crises","crisis","crisis-of-capitalism","crisis-of-confidence","currencies","currency","current-affairs","current-events","current-situation","debt-crises","debt-inheritance","debts","default","default-position","demise","depression","depression","economic-collapse","economic-crisis","economic-depression","economics","economy-bankrupt","euro","europe","european-economic-area","european-union","exit","exit-strategy","fallout","finance","finances","financial-crisis","financial-markets","financial-worries","funding","fundraising","funds","greece","greek","greek-mythology","greek-myths","greek-tragedy","grexit","indebted","indebtedness","kidding","kidding-yourself","loans-for-bad-credit","loans-for-bad-credit-rating","marketplace","markets","national","national-debt","nationalism","noose","political-commentary","political-corruption","political-expediency","political-satire","problematic","problems-in-the-world","problems-of-today","problems","problems-with-society","running-away-from-problems","savings","transparency","transparency-or-the-lack-thereof","unravel","unravelling","yoke"],"id":342642,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}