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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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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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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We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
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The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it's phony to say 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'
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The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.
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Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?
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Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.
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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.