Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2229 authors
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Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
— Max Baucus
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Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new…
— Alfred Kazin
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.…
— Aneurin Bevan
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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new…
— Northrop Frye
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Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
— Michael Douglas
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd…
— Laura Lippman
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Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
— Patrick McHenry
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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
— Pranab Mukherjee
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of…
— Gavin Newsom
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I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there…
— Jamie Oliver
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It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely…
— Hilaire Belloc
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There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their…
— Richard Louv
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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
— Blanche Lincoln
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish…
— Camilla Lackberg
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It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and…
— James Loeb
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Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and…
— Marc Ostrofsky
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