Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2299 authors
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of…
— Sigmund Freud
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There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless…
— Donald C. Peattie
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Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond…
— Kenny Smith
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It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . .…
— Paul Gallico
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The vision behind our idea is a world where people don't carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is free of toxic pollutants, and…
— Jeffrey Hollender
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We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value…
— Joseph Mailman
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We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
— Joanna Macy
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It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.
— Nelson Mandela
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The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told…
— Jamake Highwater
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Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to…
— Gerald Jonas
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged…
— Peter London
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It's a very special generation, because during our careers the computer entered chess. So we know how to play without computers, which is also important.…
— Vassily Ivanchuk
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When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was…
— George Wald
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive…
— Alan Lightman
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THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure…
— Martin Filler
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Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the…
— James Bovard
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There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.
— Steven Moffat
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One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms…
— Judith Martin
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