"The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done."
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"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture."
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"The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results."
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"Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have."
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"We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation."
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"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations"
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"Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation."
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"It is time for a new generation of leadership."
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"Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote."
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"We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations."
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"My generation has the opportunity to change the world."
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"Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now."
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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
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"Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints."
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"Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it."
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"If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore."
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"Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation."
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"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."
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"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses."
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"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
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