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"The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next."
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"I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray."
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"The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations."
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"Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila."
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"My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated."
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"High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor . . ."
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"Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes."
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"The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire."
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"We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted."
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"We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents."
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"I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism."
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"We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today."
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"This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected."
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"I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming."
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"We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come."
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"[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon."
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"There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible."
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"It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument."
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"We want American families to feel more confident in life. We want the next generation to know that yes, the best days of this country are still ahead of us."
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