"Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through."
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"A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out."
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"For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly."
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"So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation."
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"I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation."
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"A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!"
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"From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is."
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"During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there."
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"The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations."
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"[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations"
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"There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve."
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"Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology"
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"Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better."
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"Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also."
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"Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on."
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"Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed."
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"Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children."
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"Each generation has to reinvent spirituality."
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"Every generation has to find their own heroes."
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"A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he's been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories."
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