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| Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. |
| Henrik Tikkanen |
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| Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it |
| George Orwell |
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| Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. |
| Charles M. Schulz |
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| In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. |
| Igor Stravinsky |
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| Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee |
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| The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives |
| William James |
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| The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice |
| Doug Larson |
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| Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. |
| T.S. Eliot |
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| Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. |
| Bible |
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| What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! |
| Henrik Ibsen |
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