822 Quotes About Generations

  • Author Michel Foucault
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    I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

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  • Author Miles Franklin
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    It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

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  • Author Paul Di Filippo
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    Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

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  • Author Pope Francis
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    It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

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  • Author Richard P. Feynman
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    If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

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  • Author Sarah Fielding
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    Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

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  • Author Stephen Fry
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    I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

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  • Author Al Gore
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    We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

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  • Author allen ginsberg
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    Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

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