Generations Quotes
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
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Little things like time and generations don’t matter very much with good friends who are fond of each other’s company.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.
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Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we've never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.
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I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.
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I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
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The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could be fed with the grain that feeds these animals, and the suffering we thoughtlessly impose on the ecosystem, other creatures, and future generations are all interconnected. It is this interconnectedness of suffering, and its reverse, of love, caring, and awareness, that calls out for our understanding.
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There have been great champions in every generation.
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Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
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Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.
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In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
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You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.
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Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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I just want to give back and kind of be a resource for younger generations.
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The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.
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Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.
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I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.
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Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.
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For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
