822 Quotes About Generations

  • Author Ken Mehlman
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    For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

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  • Author Kweisi Mfume
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    Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.

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  • Author Lewis Mumford
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    In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

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  • Author Ludwig von Mises
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    The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.

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  • Author Maimonides
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    The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.

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  • Author Malcolm McLaren
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    I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

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  • Author Margaret Mead
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    We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

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