Generations Quotes
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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
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I think it's very important that we should pass on to our future generations… the things we've learnt.
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I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
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The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.
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The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
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Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
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We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
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To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
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I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.
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Some generations were drafted for war, your generation is being asked to stay home. Easy sacrifice.
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Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.
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It seems like the millennial generation is a little bit of a cultural punching bag.
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If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.
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In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.
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I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
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Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly.
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I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.
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There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently
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We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.
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I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
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There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.
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A generation of children has been betrayed.
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We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.
