Generation Quotes

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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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to… — Malcolm X
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the… — Cory Doctorow
The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't… — Paul Hawken
In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to… — LeBron James
What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those… — John F. Kennedy
A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for… — E F Schumacher
I've always been intrigued with the variety of answers this generation will give their children who ask, "Where did I come from, Mommy?" They will… — Erma Bombeck
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt… — Yehuda Berg
Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or… — Sandra Fluke
I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For… — Nancy Pelosi
If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores… — Michelle Obama
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… — Steven Weinberg
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. — Belva Ann Lockwood
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. — Hervey Allen
The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. — Simon Wiesenthal
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going… — John Denver
To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity. — Barack Obama

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