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"Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable."
"Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another."
"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?"
"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
"Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . ."
"I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation."
"The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few."
"If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations."
"Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation."
"Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions."
"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known."
"My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions"
"Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next."
"A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man."
"The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough."
"I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance."
"I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it."
"The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born."
"New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there wasn't anything comparable. Very few got their picture in a magazine, fewer made records. We have to stand back and let them get their footing. Hopefully they'll come to the realization that the most important thing is their work and how they conduct themselves."
"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."
