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"In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation."
"O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?"
"One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else."
"I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation."
"Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open."
"A chaste generation would restore Paradise."
"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."
"If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental."
"I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets."
"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation"
"Every generation of children has its private hero."
"Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?"
"The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally."
"I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house."
"I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation."
"Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme."
"Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms."
"If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both"
"The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine."
"I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean."
