Previous Generations Quotes

• If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

  Jim Talent

  Commitment, People, Liberty

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• Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sibling, Funeral, Generations

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• This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Evil, Generations, Slippery Slope

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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• Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

  Criss Jami

  Different, Generations, Next

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Mean, Israel

  The Times, August 5, 1980.

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• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Mean, Israel

  The Times, August 5, 1980.

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• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Presidential, This Generation

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

  Colin Powell

  Love, Mom, Dream

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• The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

  Al Ries

  Generations, Next, Products

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• You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

  Neal Boortz

  Ideas, Race, Judging

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• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Generations, Care, Today

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• The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

  Robert Caro

  New York, Talking, Cities

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• As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessed, Mean, Technology

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• "Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!"
  
  "Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image."

  Diane Duane

  Children, Father, Saint

  "High Wizardry". Book by Diane Duane, 1990.

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• I recalled how much time i had spent fighting for something i didn't even want. maybe because i had been too lazy to think of other avenues to follow. maybe because i had been afraid of what others would think. maybe because it was hard work to be different. perhaps, because a human being is condemned to repeat the steps taken by the previous generation until a certain number of people begin to behave in a different fashion. then the world changes, and we change with it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Fashion, Taken

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• It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

  Diane Duane

  Children, Generations, World

  "High Wizardry (Young Wizards, Book 3)". Book by Diane Duane, 1990.

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• Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.

  David Finckel

  Art, Communication, Commitment

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• A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.

  Luis Valdez

  Ignorance, Eye, California

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.

  Robert Mankoff

  Mean, Breathing, Interesting

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

  Paul Merton

  Reading, Book, Listening

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• That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tasks, Generations, How To Love

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• The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?

  Margot Wallstrom

  Son, Years, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at this critical moment is to awaken the energies needed to create the new world and to evoke a universal communion of all parts of life.

  Thomas Berry

  Responsibility, Community, Energy

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• These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

  Erik Erikson

  Responsibility, Caring, Years

  Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson, Helen Q. Kivnick (1994). “Vital Involvement in Old Age”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Order, Ignorant

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.77, Heron Dance Press

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