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Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
Criss Jami
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.
Albert Einstein
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
Samuel Johnson
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Baldwin
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific
Taylor Caldwell, On Growing Up T
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Charles Dudley Warner
Each 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
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
Oscar Wilde
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
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