"I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity."
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"Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations."
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"Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago."
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"I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations."
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"Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed."
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"The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way."
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"One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels."
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"Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro."
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"The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die."
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"Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time"
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"In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach."
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"Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel."
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"I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation."
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"I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing."
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"Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems."
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"I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation."
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"I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time."
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"A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt."
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"I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations."
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"There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so."
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