Every Generation Quotes
130 quotes by 116 authors
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We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
— Joshua Ferris
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Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must…
— Nicholas G. Carr
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Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.
— Eiichiro Oda
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Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology
— Dan Brown
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe…
— James Robertson
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
— Chinua Achebe
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Every generation needs a new revolution.
— Thomas Jefferson
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
— E L Doctorow
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"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They…
— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its…
— Philip Caputo
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Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau…
— Ellison Onizuka
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Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that…
— David Malpass
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I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
— P. J. Soles
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
— D. A. Carson
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Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I realize that sometimes I get bothered when I see the world acting like the world. Did you hear what I said? The world is…
— Monica Johnson
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Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
— David Harsanyi
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The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.
— Billy Graham
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Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court…
— Noah Feldman
Who Wrote These Every Generation Quotes
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