Nicholas Eberstadt Quotes
The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.

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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
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I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
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I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
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I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
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I'm not designed to interact with society.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.