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"I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity."
"Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born."
"It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one."
"I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward."
"Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations."
"I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history."
"My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association."
"The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life."
"No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease."
"I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be."
"It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first."
"You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation ."
"A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations."
"I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films."
"Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators."
"The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying."
"The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons."
"[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution."
"Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most."
"Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades."
