"The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on."
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"A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society."
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"Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts."
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"Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens."
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"The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment."
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"Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens."
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"May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers."
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"Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation."
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"[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words."
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"It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so."
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"There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can."
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"We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along."
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"You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]"
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"I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did."
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"Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas."
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"It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation."
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"I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do."
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"My generation is under-entertained."
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"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency."
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"One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom."
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