One Generation Quotes
95 quotes by 79 authors
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
— Flannery O'Connor
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The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
— Bertrand Russell
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The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
— Margaret Thatcher
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If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will…
— Margaret Thatcher
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We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern…
— Mary Travers
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The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
— Kano Jigoro
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There is a scientific explanation of healings by the power of Mind over matter which demonstrates that such healings are not miracles, but are within…
— Walter Russell
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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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The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span…
— Julian Castro
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
— Andrew Young
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It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation…
— David Irving
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Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations of organisms (you…
— Douglas J. Futuyma
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Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.
— Unknown Author
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If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
— Herbert Hoover
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Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is…
— Richard Tuttle
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....
— Joseph Joubert
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If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every…
— Mem Fox
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
— Gloria Steinem
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Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through…
— Joseph Fort Newton
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The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in…
— Albert Einstein
Who Wrote These One Generation Quotes
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