"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last."
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"...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts."
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"We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow."
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"Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else."
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"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."
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"We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation."
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"Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy."
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"The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it."
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"Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich."
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"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning."
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"However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning."
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"Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere."
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"Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations."
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"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
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"In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor."
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"The actions you take today not only impact you; they influence generations. Every matter matters for eternity."
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"Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation."
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"I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)."
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"All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist"
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"You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it."
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