Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2229 authors
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I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so…
— Elena Kagan
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I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all…
— Dweezil Zappa
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There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external…
— Theophrastus
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Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy…
— Greg Walden
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The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
— David O. Selznick
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Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now…
— Keith Henson
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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the…
— J. G. Ballard
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I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make…
— John N. Bahcall
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[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration…
— G. H. Hardy
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Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And…
— Gay Talese
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No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
— Thomas Sowell
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It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit…
— Richard P. Feynman
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What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil…
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car…
— Fareed Zakaria
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The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as…
— Michael Faraday
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Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to…
— Judah Leon Magnes
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