Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are."
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Generations
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Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections."
Mary Edwards Walker
Surgeon, Women's rights activist
"Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom."
Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life."
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"The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia."
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"Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform."
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"I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish."
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"Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations."
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"Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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"It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo."
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"The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed."
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"I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it."
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"The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude."
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"Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves."
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"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
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"There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!"
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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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"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness."
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"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
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"No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence."
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"Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"
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"If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known."
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"John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'"
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"By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn."
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