Generations Quotes

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. — Boris Pasternak
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I… — Wilford Woodruff
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public… — Eric Liu
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not… — Paul Kantner
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;… — C.S. Lewis
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to… — Charles Kettering
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too… — Phil McGraw
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to… — Timothy Leary
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.… — Donald James
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a… — Alan Keyes
It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to… — Richard M. Nixon
Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin… — Ronald Reagan
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.… — Henry David Thoreau
But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and… — Henry David Thoreau
A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man. — Henry Ford II
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… — William Butler Yeats
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he… — Garry Kasparov
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. — Arthur Peacocke
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you… — Peter Mayhew

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