Present Generation Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of…
— John Adams
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
— Bertrand Russell
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The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect…
— Hasan of Basra
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing…
— David R. Brower
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Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South…
— George Washington
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Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one…
— Jaimy Gordon
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We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.
— John Mott
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
— E. M. Forster
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Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
— Roger Scruton
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The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country…
— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want…
— Kabir Bedi
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It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by…
— George B. Cortelyou
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History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
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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
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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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Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age…
— Taylor Caldwell
Who Wrote These Present Generation Quotes
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