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  I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.

  Crazy Horse

  Native American, Color, Circles

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• 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

  Wisdom, War, Government Debt

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  Patrice Leconte

  Anniversary, Marijuana, People

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• The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  War, Europe, Achievement

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• Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  Florence Kelley

  Attitude, Two, Space

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• The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

  William Blake

  Running, Men, Tides

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.549, Pearson Education

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• Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Patriotic, History

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.173, UPNE

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• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Evil

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• The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

  John Dos Passos

  Views, World, Bricks

  John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”

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• Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Confidence, Class, Long

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Effort, Individual, Social

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1953). “The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism”, Free Pr

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• The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

  Thomas Mann

  Dwelling, House, Humanity

  The New York Times, June 21, 1939.

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• It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

  Kim Hunter

  Different, Actors, Compare

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• I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

  Tom Clancy

  People, Watches, News

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

  Geraldo Rivera

  Tvs, Six, Pleasure

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• My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

  Sue Kelly

  Effort, Environmental, Legacy

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• It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Should Have, Promise, Privilege

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• I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Love, Tasks, Radio

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• Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

  Diane Watson

  Social, Program, Should

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• Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

  Steve Chabot

  Men, People, Done

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• There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

  Sarah Sutton

  Doctors, Together, Watches

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• Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

  Michael Douglas

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from May 17, 2013

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• The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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  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

  War, Liberty, Bears

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.471

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