"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. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised   

"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another."

Joubert, Joseph on monuments   

"The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents."

Lockwood, Belva on precedents
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"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."

Disraeli, Benjamin on greatness
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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."

Cioran, E. M. on justice
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"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."

Disraeli, Benjamin on opinions   

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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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"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."

Nash, Ogden on happiness
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"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation."

Clarke, James Freeman on politics
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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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"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."

Eliot, T. S. on peace
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"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."

Arendt, Hannah on action   

"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."

Spielberg, Steven on books - reading   

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

Macleod, Iain on influence
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"There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations."

Pearse, Patrick Henry on art   

"Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work."

Unknown, Source on concentration
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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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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Tibolt, Frank on action
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

Unknown, Source on writers and writing   

"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation."

Koop, C. Everett on parents and parenting
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"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."

Lowell, Amy on sacrifice   

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Graham, Billy on jesus christ
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"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."

Piaget, Jean on education   

"The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness."

Berger, John on media   

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on greatness
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"The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives."

Miller, Henry on greatness
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"The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed."

Kierkegaard, Søren on indolence
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"Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like...Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps -- if we trust it to do so. Naturally, not all hunches are useful. But then you only need a single good idea to solve a problem."

Sinetar, Marsha on problems   

"A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show."

Herzen, Alexander on business   

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbors. "

Bible on uncategorised   

"Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised   

"Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days."

Steinem, Gloria on planning   

"The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come."

O'connor, Sandra Day on family   

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on evolution   

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

James, William on attitude
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"A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations."

Murray, William on books - reading   

"I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning."

Williams, Ian on names   

"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards."

Unknown, Source on writers and writing   

"Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea."

Colton, Charles Caleb on opinions