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"To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!" »Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
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"Education a debt due from present to future generations." »George Peabody
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"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry." »John Phillips Marquand
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"generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth." »Albert Einstein
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"The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice." »Doug Larson
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"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living." »Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)
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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes." »Kahlil Gibran
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"generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)" »Albert Einstein
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"Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come." »Montesquieu
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"If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success." »John Van de Kamp
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"Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations." »Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
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"History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not." »Theodore Harold White
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"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare." »Kenko Yoshida
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"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered." »Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
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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." »Hannah Arendt
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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." »Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
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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." »Jean Piaget
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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." »George Bernard Shaw
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"In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth." »Marie Louise de la Rame Ouida
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"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations." »Charles de Montesquieu
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"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law." »Leon Jaworski
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"Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept." »Lucille Clifton
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"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields." »Henry Ford, 1934
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"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." »Paul Weyrich
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"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground." »Noah Webster
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"In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country." »Hendrik W. Van Loon
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"Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." »Isaiah 5812 Bible
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