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Generations Quote by Lucretius

“The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life” quote by Lucretius — Download Open image

“The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life”

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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly…

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... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts,…

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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the…

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Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many…

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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the…

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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them.…

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I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

Luciano Pavarotti

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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

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I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

Michael Skolnik

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David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

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Claude Nicollier

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The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

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He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

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