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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
“My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.”
Peggy Noonan
“Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations”
James Madison
“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.”
Spiro T. Agnew
“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.”
Dr. Haim Ginott
“The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.”
Doug Larson
“It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.”
King Hussein
“We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.''”
Petra Kelly
“What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.”
Lawrence Clark Powell
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