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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  Garrett Hardin

  Topics in Education, Knowledge

  Tags in Succession, Generations

• There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

  Sarah Sutton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generations

• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Economic, Generations

• I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

  Georgia Jagger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generations, Fashion, Music

• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  Christine Gregoire

  Topics in Children, Future

  Tags in Generations

• My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

  Rupert Everett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generations

• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Human Nature, Generations

• The premise of ‘The Originals’ are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Premise, Younger, Generations

• It’s amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Amazing, Generations

• There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Unknown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rendezvous, Mysterious, Generations, Cycle, Generation, Events, Given, Other, Expected, Much, Some, Human, American, Destiny

• The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

  Tom Hanks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generations, Crown

• If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Gratitude, Generations, Sorrow, Miracles

• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Generations, Comedian, Famous, Music, Consequences

• Gay people – generally speaking – have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Generally, Generations, Responsibility, People, Community

• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Generations, Learn, Poverty

• The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe’s great achievements – liberty, peace and prosperity – as a given.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Generations, Disappearing

• It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Shaw, Generations

• I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

  Tom Clancy

  Tags in Generations, Exposes

• In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Tags in Generations, Iroquois

• Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

  Paul Tsongas

  Tags in Standard, Generations