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"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases." »Homer, The Iliad
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"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases." »Homer
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"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation." »Max Gluckman
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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." »Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." »Thomas Jefferson
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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." »Joseph Addison
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"The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation." »Macleod
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"Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature." »Phillip Lubin
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"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle." »Erma Bombeck
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"Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown." »Chinese Proverb
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"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." »Roger Allen
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"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation." »Nelson Mandela
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"F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation." »Gertrude Stein
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"He plants trees to benefit another generation." »Caecilius Statius
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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." »George Orwell
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"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future." »Robert Anson Heinlein
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"A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation." »James Clarke
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"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation." »Gertrude Stein
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"A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation." »Eubie
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"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation." »James Clarke
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"In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it." »Boris Pasternak
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"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard." »Ronald Reagan
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"I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." »Robert R. Coveyou
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"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go." »Timothy Leary
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"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." »William James
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"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours." »John F. Kennedy
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." »William James
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." »James Truslow Adams
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