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“When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently - no, they haven't given up - they asked me the same questions they always ask: "What if you're wrong?" and "If you're wrong will you apologize to future generations?" I always answer, "What if you're wrong? Will you apologize to my twenty kids and grandkids for the largest tax increase in American history?" They usually don't have anything to say after that.”

Ifs Kids Asks Given Answers Generations Havens Taxes Increase Twenties Global Warming What If American History Apologizing Future Generation Given Up Grandkids Tax Increases

Author:James Inhofe

“To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.”

People Needs Firsts Made Problem Past Suffering Lines Generations Sacrifice Skills Prepared Workers Willingness Factories Idle Be Prepared Bandits Slumps Past Generations

Author:Paul Krugman

“I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'”

People Thinking Facts White Generations Hey

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.”

People Generations Proud Hip Hop Hips Hops Good People Good Business

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.”

Next Politics Generations Responsible

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.”

Believe Generations Example Importance Remains Shining Murphy

Author:Rick Perry

“Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.”

Knows World Giving Important War Done Jobs Form Mother Force Pay Generations Sacrifice Birth Picks Labor Clean Sorry Cooks Nurse Diapers Important Jobs Zips Cheap Labor Labor Force

Author:Joanna Russ

“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.”

Source: An American Son: A Memoir

“How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.”

“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”

Firsts Inspiration Generations Planets Moon First Time Leaving Excited Flight Coming Back

Author:Alan Shepard

“The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.”

Running Next Generations Accidents Chains Links Standing Out Here And There

Book:Time and Again

Source: Time and Again

“We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.”

People Children Generations Drug Mouths Program Old People Prescriptions Younger Generation Prescription Drugs

Author:L. Neil Smith

“the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.”

Years Said Seems Numbers Struggle Four Growing Generations Republican Passing Ignorant Passings Miserable Welfare Warfare Four Generations

Author:L. Neil Smith

“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.”

“In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.”

Source: Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings

“Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?”

Values Next Generations Seeking Teeth Agendas Architect Next Generation Family Values

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.”

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”

Giving Should Long Ideas Desire Order Freedom Generations Foundation Lays Loyalty Shore Scope Visionaries Isle

Author:William E. Gladstone

“I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.”

Source: To the End of Time

“There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”

Race Class Generations Becoming Fit Checks Steady Civilisation Fertility

Author:Francis Galton

“Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.”

Hands Remember Fall Felt Generations Feet Rocks Fields Thousand Mountain Track Miles Soil Tied Impress Mice Leafs Eagles Woven Strands Miles Away Hands Of God Crabs Thousand Miles Lizards

Author:Daniel Quinn

“I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power to accomplish remarkable feats and live an exceptional life is not defined by an individual's family, education, or occupation; it's a disposition of the heart. Unless it's suppressed, there is an innate desire to rise above the norm. I encourage you to step into the unknown, embrace the divine empowerment, and live your extraordinary life.”

“Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.”

Generations Plant Seeds Ancestor

Author:Kenny Ausubel

“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”

People Thinking Mind Kind May Children Stills Ideas Past Turns Parent Generations Danger Concepts Prejudice Our Children Careful Peculiar Seals Past Generations

Author:Brock Chisholm

“It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.”

Men World Has Beens America Force Nations Roles Economy Generations Mankind Century Military Models Allies Role Models Twentieth Century Adversaries Superpower Humbling Military Force

Author:Eric Shinseki

“Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.”

Ifs Way Failing Generations Lessons Meaningful Reaching Reach Out

Author:Kweisi Mfume

“The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.”

“The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.”

People Needs Country Nations Generations Busy Affair Chinese

Author:Zheng Bijian

“The perception is that -- and I know many of us have heard this anecdotally -- many third and fourth generations of IU families are opting not to go to here because they perceive the quality of IU is going down.”

Knows Quality Generations Heard Perception Thirds Perceive Fourth

Author:Tom Reilly

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.”

“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”

Thinking Ends Generations Special All Things Apocalypse Hubris

Author:Hugh Howey

“Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.”

Want Should Different Easy Quality Our Lives Generations Share Information Discipline Cooking Available Cooks Kitchen Efficient Advancement Future Generation Cuisine

Author:Ferran Adria

“I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.”

“The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Writing May Soul Dream Spirit Path Generations Magic Lucky Unique Inspired Library Driven Clever Setting Settings Wander Your Soul Volume Downloads Osmosis

Author:Arthur Plotnik

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.”

People Feels Courses Felt Chance Study Generations Mastery Entitled Affirming

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“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.”

“We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.”

Humans Growth Race Our Lives Generations Evolution Human Race Microcosm

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.”

Men Growth Generations Reflexes

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Stills School Growth Generations Exercise Limits Authority Blind Generous Human Mind Disciple Plato Deference Plato And Aristotle

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.”

May Perfect Generations Unions Tolerance

Author:Barack Obama

“[We should] set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and [we] can not let these problems hand on from generation to generation.”

Should Problem Hands Eye Political Differences Steps Generations Chinese Can Not Taiwan Political Differences

Author:Xi Jinping

“Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.”

“The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.”

“It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Romance Born Wealth Poverty Generations Riches Intense Wealthy Doubtful

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.”

Parent Generations Computer Window Essence Apples Nerves Generation X

Author:Tim Bajarin

“The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely free of debt, seems to me to impose some limitation on the validity of the theory that by borrowing we should, or could, pass on the burden of development to the next generation.”

Way Should Facts Seems Next Generations Theory Development Burden Debt Limitation Etc Heritage Next Generation Port Borrowing Validity Previous Generations

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

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