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25 quotesEach new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Civilization
Hervey Allen
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Injustice
E. M. Cioran
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Politicians and Politics
James Freeman Clarke
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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Generations
Anthony Crosland
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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
Greatness
Benjamin Disraeli
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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Opinions
Benjamin Disraeli
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Insanity
Allen Ginsberg
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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
History and Historians
Robert Heinlein
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Monuments
Joseph Joubert
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Education
Jean De La Bruyere
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The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Precedents
Belva Lockwood
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
Sacrifice
Amy Lowell
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The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
Influence
Iain Macleod
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Parents and Parenting
Lewis Mumford
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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Books - Reading
William Murray
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What we need is a generation of peace.
Peace
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Family
Sandra Day O'connor
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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Critics and Criticism
Channing Pollock
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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Books - Reading
Steven Spielberg
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Generations
Adlai E. Stevenson
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Husbands
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Conventionality
Henry David Thoreau
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Infantilism is possibly the hallmark of our generation.
Twentieth Century
John Wells
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun