"Whole generations have forgotten history."
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"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
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"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."
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"The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation."
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"With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future."
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"I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes."
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"What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy."
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"A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society."
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"Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral."
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"I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation."
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"The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice."
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"I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation."
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"I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV."
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"The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long."
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"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)"
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"It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage."
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"Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations."
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"Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence."
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"Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement."
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"No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art."
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