Generation Quotes
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Worldwide, our young generation shares the same issues socially and politically.
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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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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.
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I’m the best songwriter of my generation. Ask me in 20 years about the Libertines.
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I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
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By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"
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Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.
