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• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

  Felix Bloch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Generations, Conform

• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Generations, Artists, Innovators

• 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 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

• 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

• The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations – Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others – were natives of Europe and America.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generations

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization, Movement, Generations

• 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

• Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.

  Bill Owens

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Generations

• 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

• I’m going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let’s get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Tags in Generations, Protect, Conflicts

• 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

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Generations, Learn, Poverty

• 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

• Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

  James Madison Jr

  Tags in Generations

• There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

  Sarah Sutton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generations