"The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation."

Macleod, Iain on Influence
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"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."

Mill, John Stuart on Wisdom
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"A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."

Paglia, Camille on Twentieth Century
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"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."

Crosland, Anthony on Generations
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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new."

Thoreau, Henry David on Conventionality
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"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

Mumford, Lewis on Parents and Parenting
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"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

Heinlein, Robert on History and Historians
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"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages."

Allen, Hervey on Civilization
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"What we need is a generation of peace."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on Peace
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"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on America
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on Youth
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"Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock."

Lindsey, Ben on Youth
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