"No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence."
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"Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"
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"If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known."
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"John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'"
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"By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn."
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"He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ"
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"Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!"
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"The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory"
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"Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures."
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"How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave."
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"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."
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"I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral."
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"It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for."
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"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."
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"It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation."
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"If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations."
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"To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected."
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"Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service."
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"What have future generations ever done for us?"
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"It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists."
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