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Jim George Artist
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"Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation."

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"After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."

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"So it may be a language that separates you - again, social networks. But second-generation Asian and Hispanics, second, and third and fourth and so on, they are much more likely to be in integrated churches than are blacks or whites."

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"It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong."

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Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter
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"I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act."

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Louis Bacon Businessman
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"It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
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"The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

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