Generation Quotes

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No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if… — David Spangler
What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women. — Elaine A. Cannon
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the… — Jonathan Schell
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. — Ruben Hinojosa
Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of… — Dennis Kucinich
When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and… — Kid Koala
Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before. — Owen Chamberlain
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics. — Ed Miliband
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and… — A. A. Gill
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men… — William Manchester
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon… — Alexander Herzen
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic… — Joshua L. Liebman
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world. — Dan Pallotta
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. — Thomas Jefferson
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no… — Percy Williams Bridgman
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years,… — Mary McAleese
I donâ€™t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did. — Ai Weiwei

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