Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2306 authors
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Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting…
— Jason Reitman
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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.
— Scott D. Anthony
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Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
— Roger Scruton
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The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and…
— Kurt Tucholsky
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The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit…
— Charles Colson
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Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a…
— David Suzuki
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If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations…
— Ben Bernanke
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To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
— Robert Owen
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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained…
— Arrian
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Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs…
— Lech Walesa
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The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.
— Lewis Gordon
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As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
— Max Hastings
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Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.
— Francis Galton
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Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of…
— Albert Claude
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
— Christine Lagarde
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The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a…
— Jerry Stahl
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We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations…
— Al-Kindi
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A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make…
— David Frum
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