Our Generation Quotes - Page 4

• So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

  Gordon Brown

  Responsibility, Years, Ideas

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• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  Eban Goodstein

  Country, Years, Envy

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• The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not a goal that can be compromised. One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come.

  Lester R. Brown

  Goal, Choices, Challenges

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• We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, India, Needs

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• For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

  Richard Perle

  War, Evil, Holocaust

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.12, Random House

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• It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

  Niall Ferguson

  Average, Chinese, Generations

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. July, 2011.

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• It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Air, Tasks, Generations

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• Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

  Albert Claude

  Dream, Cells, Years

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• It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

  Alison Moyet

  People, Interesting, Generations

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• Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

  Sha Zukang

  Opportunity, Giving, Humanity

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• It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Moving, Ideas, Heaven

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• Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Light, Darkness, Example

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• Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Success, Real

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

  Christian Lacroix

  Sister, Book, Paris

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• I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?

  Richard Stearns

  Children, Believe, Years

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• No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

  David Spangler

  Courage, Powerful, Healing

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• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Sacrifice, Maturity, Long

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• Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

  Mark Linkous

  Artist, Generations

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Inspiration, Climate

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• Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

  Alistair Begg

  Generations, Problem, Christianity

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• In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Community, Challenges

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.108, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Men, White, Grandfather

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.27, Penguin

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• I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Children, Generations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Hero, Thinking, Two

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• People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

  Adolf von Harnack

  Names, People, President

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