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| Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. | | Henrik Tikkanen | |
| Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. | | Igor Stravinsky | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | | Bible | |
| 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 | |
| The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice | | Doug Larson | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
