"A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation."
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"The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC."
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"Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God"
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"Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers."
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"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences."
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"I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay."
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"The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms."
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"I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth."
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"One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away."
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"We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation."
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"The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one."
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"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."
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"I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America.""
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"We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority."
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"Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next."
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"We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs."
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"The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old."
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"A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry."
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"A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural."
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"Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn."
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