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- Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels… — C.S. Lewis
- Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges
- If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla
- Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking… — Darrel Ray
- But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that… — Louis Agassiz
- A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster
- The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy… — Philip Guston
- Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon… — William James