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“When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.”

“If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.”

Ifs Doe Generations Succeed Slave Descent Be A Slave

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.”

Thinking Firsts Whole Process Generations Design Alternatives Requirements Restraint Testing Involving Design Process

Author:Herbert Simon

“The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.”

Important Next Generations Satisfying Next Generation

Author:George Will

“The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.”

World Wells States Economy Generations Drug Machines Weight Criminals Welfare Expensive Obnoxious Welfare State

Author:Martin Durkin

“We're looking at a huge gap between what an entire generation thinks is going to happen during its retirement years and the funds that are there - or, more accurately, are not there - to make good on all those promises.”

Thinking Years Happens Generations Huge Promise Fund Gaps Retirement Retirement Years

Author:John C. Goodman

“The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.”

Individual Effort Liberty Generations Bills Favors Empowering Expenses Diminish Future Generation Funding Stimulus Irresponsible Private Sector Individual Liberty Acorns Public Sector

Author:David Limbaugh

“The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.”

Stills Use Government Lasts Generations Position Tough Crisis Institutions This Day Farmers Agriculture Tough Times Millionaire Franklin Great Depression 1930s

Author:Thomas Sowell

“[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.”

May Whole Hours Space Generations Kings Madness Swept Away

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

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

“The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.”

Ideas Happens Generations Financial Road To Success Recipe For Success Cripples Hard Work Pays Off Overnight Success

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.”

Thinking Philosophy Facts Government Generations Policy Spending Dues Contemporary Justification Deficit Unprecedented Pseudo Previous Generations Deficit Spending Keynesianism

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.”

Ifs Generations Source Saving Goods Consumed

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.”

Reason America Given Nations Generations Policy Building Keys Standards Machines Driven Reason Why Makers Factories Ancestor Consuming Irresponsible Policy Makers

Author:Kurt Richebacher

“Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.”

Ifs Giving Wells Long States Government Care Enjoy Interest Generations Fine Fellows Fruit Checks Health Care Hoot

Author:Mark Steyn

“The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.”

Way States Facts Law Left Black Vision Generations Century Danger Policy Example Consequence Slavery Discrimination Welfare Liberalism Survived Welfare State Black Family

Author:Thomas Sowell

“No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.”

Ifs Thinking Country Next Language Nations Generations Diversity Built Foundation Passing Passings Sand Heritage Shifting Next Generation Elitist Shifting Sand

Author:Cal Thomas

“If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.”

Ifs Want Looks Littles Seems Kids Bits Generations Little Bit Scary Driven This Generation

Author:Kim Basinger

“The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.”

People Knows Years Problem Interest Born Generations Concepts Hated Massive Gaps My Generation Orphan

Author:Liam Gillick

“No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.”

People Trying Years Done Interest Born Talking Generations Hanging Out My Generation

Author:Liam Gillick

“I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.”

Thinking Way Matter Struggle Generations Identity No Matter What Granted Younger Generation

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.”

People Hard Problem Young Parent Realizing Attention Generations Phones Pay Attention Desperate

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.”

People Ifs Want Giving Should Generations Torn

Author:Kalup Linzy

“David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General. Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.”

War Effort Known Generations Information Directors Evidence Affair Iraq Following Revelations Serving Afghanistan Investigation Mistress Cia Classified Information American War

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. ... And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man.”

Men Way Has Beens America Past Generations Economic Huge Guilt Extremes Traditional Outcomes Helpful Drivers Economic Systems Ethos Reliability Past Generations

Author:Charlie Munger

“There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.”

Way Our Lives Generations Passing Passings

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.”

Remember Used Parent Generations Died Adversity Train Profit Israel Wilderness Stubbornness Older Generation

Author:Max Anders

“We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.”

People Thinking Sin Generations Judgment Despite Seats Sinner

Author:R. C. Sproul

“One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.”

Generations Bible Biblical Commitment To God Our Generation

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.”

People Years Moving Generations Unthinkable Thinkable

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event, there's a senior or a junior from WAER broadcasting sports just the way we did, and just the way it happened a couple generations before us. That's a great legacy for the university and a great tradition that still continues to this day, and makes those of us who were a small part of it very very proud.”

Way Years Stills Sports Generations Happened Events Proud Couple Tradition University Legacy This Day Senior Juniors Small Parts Broadcasting Sporting Events Syracuse

Author:Mike Tirico

“The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.”

Made Ends Done Action Individual Generations Citizens Notion Available Familiar Agency Attainment

Book:Spencer: Political Writings

Source: Spencer: Political Writings

“It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.”

Ideas Moving Culture Community Plans Generations Connections Notion Scales Moving Forward Curious Release Dependent Phenomenon New Ideas Compounds

Author:Terence McKenna

“For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next generation or two. But religious people have been singularly uncooperative, and new strategies have developed for controlling this blight on human progress. If religion won't "wither away" as philosopher Richard Rorty has wished, then perhaps it can be privatized and thereby removed from influence on public life‚ - sort of like localizing an outbreak of the plague.”

“Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.”

“Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.”

“There is a sense of urgency and this is a time for teachers and I think that there is this psychic awareness with this new generation of seekers that they are here to teach and so that they really need to wake up fast, much like we did, because we know that we must show up at a very high level and so therefore I think that there is an unconscious sense of urgency like I need to do this and not just for me, but for something greater and they may not be able to put that into words, but they are experiencing it.”

Thinking Knows Needs May Shows Able Levels Teach Greater Teacher Generations Awareness Wake Up Unconscious Psychics Seekers Urgency New Generation High Level Sense Of Urgency

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.”

People Ends Country Natural Generations Industry Bears Increase Filled Employment Occasional Provision Foreigners Frugality Subsistence Vacancy Importation

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad in the back of a free paper seeking a guitarist, bassist, and drummer just looking to jam.”

Persons Millions Written Generations Paper Lonely Fortune Albums Seeking Defined Touched Cheer Ads Jam Drummer Guitarist Bassists Lonely Person

Author:Dallas Clayton

“We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?”

Knows Kind Reason Process Knowing Generations Intelligent Assuming Historical Species Caught No Reason

Author:Terence McKenna

“It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.”

People Whole Seems Certain Values Growth Generations Danger Losing Sight Attachment Allowing Civics Values In Society

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.”

Mind Matter Can Do Generations Property Wholeness Constructs Psychics Alchemy Paradoxical Mind And Matter

Author:Terence McKenna

“Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.”

Ifs Knows Wells Looks May Body Parent Consciousness Generations Objects Drink Ancestor Consumption Items Future Generation Ingratitude

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.”

Ifs Knows Want Chance Situation Generations Demand Not Sure Future Generation

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.”

Doe Reason Stories Faces Fate Generations Talent Inspire Genius Rewards Artistic Reason Why Alas Future Generation Tangible Sparkle

Author:Joseph Haydn

“Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.”

Next Growing Up Growing Generations Mom Dad Band My Family My Dad My Favorite My Mom Uncles Next Generation Mom And Dad Favorite Bands

Author:Jacob Latimore

“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.”

People Way Firsts Technology Generations Months Six Training Percent Meaningful Six Months New Technology New Generation Refinery Welding

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.”

Ifs World Moving Next Generations Moving Forward Next Generation

Author:Kapil Dev

“However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.”

Humans Generations Factors Predecessors How To Love

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show, blaxploitation films of the seventies - so often becomes a fruitful source of inspiration, veneration, and study for those to come, while certified Great and Worthy Art molders and fades on its storage rack, giving off an increasingly powerful whiff of naphthalene.”

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