"Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats."
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"We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist."
"I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation."
"Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe."
"Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation."
"We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission."
"We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation."
"A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh."
"The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away."
"Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always."
"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."
"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
"History should be about every generation's will to power."
"Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!"
"A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us"
"I like to see what future generations are thinking about."
"It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves."
"As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations."
"As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it."
"I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered."