"We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left."
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"The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count."
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"The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated."
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"[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place."
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"Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after."
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"There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct."
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"No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation."
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"The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."
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"I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence."
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"I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it."
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"Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right."
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"One generation cannot bind another."
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"We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority."
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"I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another."
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one."
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"I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations."
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"George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy."
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"He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations."
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"The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?"
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"Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks."
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