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"That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself."
"This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon."
"My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."
"A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken..."
"I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty."
"I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts."
"Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? —"
"The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."
"If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future."
"The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next."
"Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe."
"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
"Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life."
"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."
"Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning."
"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages."
"I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that."
"To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next."
"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change."
"I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing."
