Generations Quotes - Page 14

• The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

  Adam Smith

  Minorities, Rewards, Fool

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• Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

  Paul Martin

  Country, Pride, Our Veterans

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• When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.

  Robert Hughes

  Distance, War, Flower

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• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Sorry, Home, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

  Will Wright

  Xbox, Games, Wii

  "Q&A: Will Wright, creator of the Sims". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. Ocotber 26, 2007.

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• The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.

  Scott Adams

  Children, Future, Kids

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• A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

  Adam Smith

  Earth, Absurd, Estates

  Adam Smith (1964). “Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms”

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• Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

  George Leonard

  Way, Educator, Preventing

  George Leonard (1987). “Education and Ecstasy: With, "The Great School Reform Hoax"”, p.7, North Atlantic Books

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• Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.

  Ted Turner

  Father, Inspiration, Giving

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• To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Exercise, Men

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.41, New York Review of Books

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• What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there should be no official relationship of any character between government and any church or many churches, and no levying of taxes for the support of any church, or many churches, or all churches, or any institution conducted by any of them.

  Sam Ervin

  Character, Men, Support

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• In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

  Paul Johnson

  Christian, Religious, Views

  Paul Johnson (2012). “History of Christianity”, p.720, Simon and Schuster

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• The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Godly, Maturity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, Interesting, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.

  Patti Smith

  Taken, Rocks, Our Generation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Ipods, Track, World

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Winning, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate.

  Simon Pegg

  Self, Knowing, Cameras

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• "A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.

  Mabel Cheung

  War, Home, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

  Billy Corgan

  Order, Doe, Next

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, Looks, Rooms

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

  Jane Pauley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

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• That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Mistake, Would Be

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Sex, Ideas

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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