"Each generation has a backlash against the generation before."
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"The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive."
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"When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50."
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"On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud"
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"As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them."
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"In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation."
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"I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness."
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"What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief."
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"I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be"
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"Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together."
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"Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice."
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"Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger."
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"Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find."
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"I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened."
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"Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely."
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"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?"
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"It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking."
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"Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness."
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"Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back."
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"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered."
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